Win Butler Quotes

It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.

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• I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Good
  • Me
  • Certain

• I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Work
  • School
  • Career

• I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Music
  • Help
  • Career

• We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.

  

  Kate Brown
  • School
  • High
  • Career

• I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Career
  • Never

• I am proud of my career.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Career
  • Proud

• My dad was more tensed than I was a day before the release. Having learned that 'Bruce Lee' has released to the highest openings in my career, he has settled down.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Career
  • Dad
  • Day

• It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • God
  • Why
  • Kids

• When I had no shoes I was comfortable - I used to run barefoot. When I wore shoes it was difficult. To run in shoes was ok, but at the beginning of my career it was hard.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Career
  • Beginning
  • Shoes

• I never had intention of coming to New York or L.A. and actually doing more than scraping by - you know, doing plays. And as my career sort of progressed of its own volition, I did come to New York.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Career
  • Know
  • Doing

• Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • People
  • Work
  • Women

• I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Love
  • History
  • Career

• Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • People
  • World
  • Career

• My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Art
  • Think

• I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Today
  • Career
  • Hate

• I think I didn't know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Trying
  • Career
  • Deep

• When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Great
  • Different
  • Women

• During my career as an airline pilot, I had the opportunity to be a check and training captain. Part of this job was to train and test experienced pilots to ensure that they had the necessary knowledge and skills to safely and efficiently operate those magnificent big jets.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • Job
  • Career
  • Opportunity

• The people who have achieved more than you, in any area, are only a half step ahead of you in time. Bless them and praise their gifts, and bless and praise your own. The world would be less rich without their contributions, and it would be less rich without yours. There's more than room for everyone; in fact, there's a need for everyone.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • People

• I think you have to go deep into the bag of tricks, so to speak, to try and slow down the quarterback.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Think
  • Deep
  • Speak

• It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.

  

  Win Butler
  • Career