Win Butler Quotes
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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Miguel has this Prince, Marvin Gaye, old-school feel that I love.
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One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
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When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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The Oscar buzz when I was nominated was totally overwhelming. I think I can cope with anything now that I've coped with that. It was huge. It makes you realize, coming from a small country like Australia, what an enormous industry it is in America.
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On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.
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Our violence is, as you know, cartoon violence.
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I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.
Jenny Nimmo -
I laughed at Willie Nelson, wondering why he spends all his life on that tour bus. And I look at myself, and I'm sitting in airplanes half the time.
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It is critical that kids start to learn the value of money, short-term and long-term saving and budgeting at an early age.
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Everybody wants to have the president talk about their issue.
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I love my iPhone; it's great to have a camera around all the time.
