Bill Callahan Quotes
I wanted to live in a house. I wanted to have a place where I could record at home - all of these things I'd wanted to do for years.
Quotes to Explore
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone's going 'Hey!' and the next they're going 'Who?'. You certainly don't need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
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Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.
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It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.
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I'd like to be able to show 'Rapid Fire' to my dad. I'm that proud of what we've accomplished within the framework of the action-adventure formula.
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All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.
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I think that with this team, we honestly worry about other things besides team concepts.
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I wanted to live in a house. I wanted to have a place where I could record at home - all of these things I'd wanted to do for years.
