Raegan Butcher quotes

Raegan Butcher quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Prison is like high school with knives.”
-- Raegan Butcher

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“There is nothing like scrubbing toilets for a living to make you question the choices you have made in life.”
-- Raegan Butcher

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“They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell.”
-- Raegan Butcher

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“I eat the hearts of girls and puke slugs and snails.”
-- Raegan Butcher

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“anyone who has no feelings for animals has a dead heart.”
-- Raegan Butcher

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“Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.”
-- Raegan Butcher

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“I am NOT an anarchist. Never have been, never will be. Just because Crimethinc put out two of my poetry books, I am labeled everywhere as an anarchist poet. I am a poet, yes. Not an anarchist. I have no formulated political philosophy other than a general feeling of disgust for the majority of the human race.”
-- Raegan Butcher

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“Sometimes I feel like I am on top of the world. Other times it feels like the world is on top of me.”
-- Raegan Butcher

#World Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Top Of The World Quotes
“Smuggling poems out of prison in the soles of mt shoes i'm way past finding salvation in the arms of a woman, I look out my window and see burning flowers and starving armies but when I look up into the night sky I see the souls of dead heroes”
-- Raegan Butcher

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“I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.”
“I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.”

Source : "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Aaron Tveit". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. July 24, 2010.
“I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late â€™90s!”

Source : "Broadway Favorite Aaron Tveit Tackles the Small Screen With ‘Graceland’". Interview with Suzy Evans, www.backstage.com. June 27, 2013.
“During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.”
“The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp!”

Source : Andre Norton (2015). “Wraiths of Time”, p.13, Open Road Media
“I have a scar on my left thigh, kind of almost near my knee. I essentially fell in the 2002 Olympics and when I hit the wall - because of the impact - my right leg kind of came in at like a knife-type angle and stabbed my leg with my own skate blade.”
“I never wore full-on eyeliner in high school, but I wanted to.”
“When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.”
“When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.”
“I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.”

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