Andrew Hozier-Byrne (Hozier) Quotes
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Long hair, for me, is actually less maintenance. I went through a phase when I was kid where I wanted a pixie cut. At the time I thought it looked awesome, but I look back and I looked like such a dork! When I have short hair, I feel like I have to blow dry it, or it doesn't sit properly.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
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I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.
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I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.
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Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
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To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.
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It's really weird to be taken seriously for what you're wearing. It makes me want to wear a uniform.
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Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But life is so complicated and full of uncertainty that rules seldom tell us quite what to do.
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The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
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A chief of station is the head of all intelligence operations in any given country.
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I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.
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If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.
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Networks, especially, micro-manage everything to death.
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Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They're always wondering what the next thing is: 'What do you have?' It's a very introverted process.
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I've gravitated towards independent cinema because you have to work harder in studio scripts to flesh out characters, particularly female ones. They are not as sharply edged, they tend to be quite watery. They are not renderings of women as I know them.
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A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.
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The scientific answer is relevant so far as concerns the sense-impressions... For the rest the human spirit must turn to the unseen world to which it itself belongs.
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I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
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Men who are driven are happy in their work and their vision but are not happy-go-lucky. Evelyn has a happiness and contentment most of the time -- she's my balance.
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Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!
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Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.
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When I first started to sing, I just swung at it with an axe.
