Win Butler Quotes
Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
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I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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I've always had an interest in sports across the board.
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.
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You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.
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The two endorsements I'm most proud of come from Isabel Wilkerson and Toni Morrison. The latter is the greatest American fiction writer of our time, and the former is on her way to being the greatest American nonfiction writer of our time.
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In my spare time I like to sleep.
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I'm always late to bed - usually after midnight - but then I sleep for around ten hours.
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Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?
