Andrew Hozier-Byrne (Hozier) Quotes
All songs, all pieces of art, reflect the world that they were made in and the values of those artists and the hopes and aspirations of the people who listen to that music and who made that music.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
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I thank God every day that there was no YouTube or Twitter when I was a teenager. I would have had a channel, and it would have been mortifying.
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Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.
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All songs, all pieces of art, reflect the world that they were made in and the values of those artists and the hopes and aspirations of the people who listen to that music and who made that music.
