Andrew Hozier-Byrne (Hozier) Quotes

Certainly in the case of having to answer questions about where a song comes from, it's a hell of a lot easier when you say, 'I've removed myself from it.' But they start from quite a personal place. They always do.

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• Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

  

  T. E. Hulme
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• I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.

  

  Gayle Forman
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• Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.

  

  Barry Jenkins
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• I do not consider myself beautiful.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
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• When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.

  

  Jack Nicholson
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• Parents, teachers, and other school staff need the tools to help these young people early in their lives. And the earlier, the better. It is proven that early action prevents problems later in life.

  

  Kate Middleton
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• In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

  

  Nancy Astor
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  • Woman
  • Chance

• Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Family
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• I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
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  • Know
  • Changes

• It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
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• There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

  

  Talcott Parsons
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• Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.

  

  Carlos Slim
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• It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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  • Present
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• We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.

  

  Eddie Obeng
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• What I do now, when I'm taking on a film, I always ask about the fairness of the pay. I ask what they're offering me in comparison to the guy. I don't care about how much I get paid; I'm in an industry where we're overcompensated for the work we do.

  

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• If you take the hard numbers, then science is clearly telling us that we're running out of time.

  

  Achim Steiner
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• I'm not ashamed of anything I've done, because if I feel ashamed, I'm not going to do it in the first place.

  

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• I have always loved the Summer Olympics.

  

  Katharine McPhee
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• I know a lot of artists say, `If you want your song on my record, I get 50 per cent' I'd like to kick them in the face.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Song
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• Certainly in the case of having to answer questions about where a song comes from, it's a hell of a lot easier when you say, 'I've removed myself from it.' But they start from quite a personal place. They always do.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
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