Andrew Hozier-Byrne (Hozier) Quotes

You grow up and recognize that in any educated secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognize 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.

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• Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Together
  • Team
  • Confidence

• The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

  

  Otto Schily
  • World
  • Feel
  • Hatred

• 'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Word
  • Dangerous
  • Mathematics

• Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • Light
  • Control
  • Brain

• It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Religious
  • Religion

• V-necks are great because you can get a little fat and you still look kind of good - and I like to get fat sometimes, so it's nice. I like to fluctuate between the world of skinny and fat, so V-necks suit me well.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Why
  • Hope

• I'm not the type of person that is forced.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Person
  • Type
  • Forced

• Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Person
  • Face
  • Greatest

• If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Past
  • Audience
  • Young

• Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Father
  • Relationship
  • Day

• The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Road
  • Creative
  • Process

• People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Real
  • America
  • Conflict

• If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Men
  • Women
  • Equality

• Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Everything
  • Starts
  • Daydream

• The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Best
  • Too Much
  • Plants

• Companies often visit my office, or invite me to theirs, to brief me on new products, Web sites, or software before they are released - usually a few weeks or days ahead of time. I don't review most of these products.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
  • Me
  • Software

• Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.

  

  Matthew Henry
  • World

• I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Help
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

  

  Augustus Y. Napier
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.

  

  James Patterson
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Reading

• I have no idea what I'm going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that anything I say I find funny.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Up
  • Funny

• You grow up and recognize that in any educated secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognize 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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