Andrew Hozier-Byrne (Hozier) Quotes

You grow up and recognise that in an educated, secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognise in yourself, and challenge yourself, that if you see racism or homophobia or misogyny in a secular society, as a member of that society, you should challenge it. You owe it to the betterment of society.

Andrew Hozier-Byrne

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• It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

  

  Omar Bongo
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  • Political
  • Courage

• My first agent told me to change my name or I'd only play Jewish parts or Indians. Of course I refused to change it. Shortly thereafter she came up to me and told me I had to keep it, because her numerologist said it was very, very good.

  

  Malachi Throne
  • Up
  • Good
  • She

• Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.

  

  Jack Schwartz
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  • Same
  • Tragedy

• Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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  • Growing
  • Cool

• If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.

  

  Patch Adams
  • World
  • Money
  • Power

• I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Up
  • Hollywood
  • Got

• The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • World
  • Great

• One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.

  

  Raf Simons
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  • Work
  • Young

• You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
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  • Never
  • See

• I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Up
  • Like
  • Feel

• I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.

  

  Ed Speleers
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  • Country
  • House

• Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Moral

• On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.

  

  Gary Oldman
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  • Power
  • Myself

• Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Society
  • Expression
  • Last

• I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

  

  Cam Gigandet
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  • World
  • Different

• My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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  • Thinking
  • Guy

• Who is that person that comes around and says, 'You are OK, you are worthy, you are special?' That makes all the difference in the world for many of us. Those are the people we appreciate the most.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • World
  • Appreciate

• If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • Time
  • Society
  • Change

• Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Italian

• Obviously I've spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which seems a bit alien to me.

  

  Janet Street-Porter
  • Life
  • Men
  • Alien

• You grow up and recognise that in an educated, secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognise in yourself, and challenge yourself, that if you see racism or homophobia or misogyny in a secular society, as a member of that society, you should challenge it. You owe it to the betterment of society.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
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