Andrew Hozier-Byrne (Hozier) Quotes
I think it all started with Nina Simone. When I was maybe seven or eight, I used to listen to one of her albums every night before I went to sleep. For me, her voice was everything.
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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Sleep is the best meditation.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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Zef is like dirt, it's like scum. There was no zef movement before we came along.
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Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.
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More or less, I am always saying, 'Give me more. Let's do what has not been done.'
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I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night... Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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I think it all started with Nina Simone. When I was maybe seven or eight, I used to listen to one of her albums every night before I went to sleep. For me, her voice was everything.
