Andrew Hozier-Byrne (Hozier) Quotes
The first time I heard Tom Waits, it was like everything just flipped. It was just this fascination with him. My cousin showed me 'Small Change,' and I just couldn't get over that this was a white guy singing.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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I am happy in Paris.
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Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.
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One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.
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In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.
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I think that people in general appreciate honesty and not trying to cook something up just to fit a mold that would be beneficial for you. I never made music like that.
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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I try to take each moment at a time.
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I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars.
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You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.
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Yeah, I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests.
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The only way I could relax was when I was with my children.
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The first time I heard Tom Waits, it was like everything just flipped. It was just this fascination with him. My cousin showed me 'Small Change,' and I just couldn't get over that this was a white guy singing.
