Win Butler Quotes
A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
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I find that the more I give back, the more comes to me.
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There are a lot of people who like to think they don't have prejudices and that they're open people, and yet, we all have that in ourselves, oftentimes against people of our own race or our own gender or whatever.
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When you have the most stable team in the garage from a financial standpoint and manufacturer standpoint, that attracts good people.
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Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.
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A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go.
