Win Butler Quotes
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
Natsuo Kirino -
There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
C. S. Forester -
We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.
Xavier Dolan -
It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.
Maia Mitchell -
I realized that if I don't like something, I can change it. If I don't feel comfortable with something, then I have a voice to say it's not cool.
Zendaya -
L.A. interests me, the whole band scene and relaxed carefree feel, but it does not mean you have to dress like a hippy.
Raf Simons
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I love what Drake does, but I don't want to be called the Drake of country.
Sam Hunt -
Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
J. C. Watts -
Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.
Ted Deutch -
There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
Samuel Beckett -
The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
H. L. Mencken
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Because what it turns out is, is that if a - the best way for a country to reduce its debt is to grow really fast, and to generate more income.
Barack Obama -
EXCISE - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Samuel Johnson -
Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,Therefore on him no speech! and brief for thee,Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale,No man hath walked along our roads with stepSo active, so inquiring eye, or tongueSo varied in discourse.
Walter Savage Landor -
When women cut themselves off from men, they sink backward into psychological and spiritual stagnancy.
Camille Paglia -
The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
I’ll tell you somethin, Sheriff. Nineteen is old enough to know that if you have got somethin that means the world to you it’s all that more likely it’ll get took away. Sixteen was, for that matter. I think about that
Cormac McCarthy
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Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.
Al Ries -
Being conscious of Global Blackness is knowing that we are not an island of our struggle but a nation of our triumphs. That's blackness to me.
Luvvie Ajayi -
Even when he turns from religion, man remains subject to it; depleting himself to create false gods, he then feverishly adopts them; his need for fiction, for mythology triumphs over evidence and absurdity alike.
Emil Cioran -
I don't like to talk about other bands in interviews.
Win Butler