Bill Callahan Quotes

My first records are integral because I made them, you know, and I'm going to learn from those mistakes.

Bill Callahan

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• After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Me
  • Saying

• I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Music
  • Style
  • Find

• I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Risk

• The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Work
  • Party
  • Politics

• One of the cool things about amateur athletics is that, I think, the pursuit is sort of the pursuit of excellence for nothing more than trying to be excellent.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Trying
  • Cool
  • Excellence

• I was an athlete. And I proved I didn't win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Win

• What I'm trying to do, and my policy, is to disassociate, to shy away from what's going on in Syria.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Trying
  • Going
  • Away

• I don't remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon, be sensuous, and have fun together.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Fun
  • Couple
  • Drama

• The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Bad
  • Forever
  • Guilty

• There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.

  

  Pam Grier
  • World
  • Creative
  • Just

• I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Fun
  • Designer
  • Composer

• While I can always use a break from the gym, I like to swim and dive to keep myself feeling good.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Independent
  • Movies
  • Working

• At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.

  

  Randy West
  • Career
  • Me
  • Radio

• If I ran into a 19-year-old version of myself, I'd just tell her to live, full out. I might also tell her to go ahead and have a few babies and not worry about the timing of it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Live
  • Myself
  • Worry

• I'm trying to focus on original material. That is what I've had my luck with.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Trying
  • Focus
  • Luck

• My approach to acting is the 'let's pretend' school of acting.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • School
  • Acting
  • Approach

• In the Seventies, women runners, developing amenorrhea and calcium-related shin splints, were the first to realize that nature is hovering over us, ready to shut down our systems if our fetus-feeding fat reserve drops below a certain percentage of body weight. In other words, in nature's eyes we are nothing but milk sacs and fat deposits.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Nature
  • Words

• I write songs all the time. Sometimes they're just weird songs I sing while changing a baby, or songs about annoying things that I sing to myself, or to friends while sitting at a bar, or about Christmas or New York.

  

  James Murphy
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Weird

• I absolutely adore singing, and I hope I'll always be able to sing, but you can grow more and challenge yourself more as an actor.

  

  Jessie Buckley
  • Hope
  • Singing
  • Challenge

• Everyone is going to be skeptical if they don't know what is happening.

  

  Bozoma Saint John

• It's nice to be in first place. But just because you're not on a winner doesn't mean you're a loser.

  

  Joe Torre
  • Nice

• The fabric of our Constitution and our civilisational culture is based on tolerance.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Culture
  • Tolerance
  • Fabric

• My first records are integral because I made them, you know, and I'm going to learn from those mistakes.

  

  Bill Callahan