Blake Butler Quotes
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, then we moved to California, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to Texas, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to California. This was before I was 17.
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A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.
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Fandom is amazing.
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I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.
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His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered.I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!
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Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.
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Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?
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Don't take this the wrong way but I care more and I'm a better online friend than you. I also spend way to much time online.
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I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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Confidence is the greatest friend.
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The ends justifies the means.
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If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.
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If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.
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There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.
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It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
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Mothers are not simply models of femininity to their daughters but also examples of how a woman reacts to a man. Daughters learn about fathers, and men, not only by being with Dad but also by observing their parent's marital relationship-- or its unraveling.
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I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.
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I taught them how precisely to explode and still exist.
