Win Butler Quotes
Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16.
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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Even when something sad or tragic happens, I find a way to look at it in a positive light. People who don't have a sense of humor must be so sad all the time.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!
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I was hoping, actually, that being on the other side of the camera in a scary movie, see how it's filmed and maybe you won't be as scared next time you watch one... didn't really work out! Because I know it's fake, but I just get so into it.
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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that's totally wiped out; I don't think it really exists anymore.
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Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
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For being in a relationship or to be linked up with somebody, you need to have time. I hang out with my friends just at my leisure, but there's no time to get into any link up.
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I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.
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Over time, our emerging high-usage products will likely generate significant new revenue streams for Google as well as for our partners, just as search does today.
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Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.
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You never know how much time you got.
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Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen that it works only, despite its pretensions, by taking the world largely for granted, we are not in a position to contrast all these appearances with an alternative reality. We cannot shed our ordinary responses, and if we could it would leave us with no means of conceiving a reality of any kind.
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The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
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Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.
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I think it's actually harder to watch the meet from the media section. You have no control there.
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Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.
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Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16.
