Win Butler Quotes
My parents live near the ocean, and I've spent a lot of time walking through the water at night, being around the water.
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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The history of business has shown that companies usually only regulate themselves if they're forced to by legislation, or out of self-interest - often in the shape of a marketable message that will help sell more products.
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I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.
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Writers are so important.
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Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.
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I have soundtracks for a lot of stuff.
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It was a fight for a very long time. After the end of the first season, all that was done.
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It is important never to forget our history, but parts of our history are more appropriately displayed in museums, not on government property.
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By flattening time and space, social computing and business is unlocking credible potential within business. For example, individuals and organizations that weren't connected before are now connected together.
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My parents live near the ocean, and I've spent a lot of time walking through the water at night, being around the water.
