Bill Callahan Quotes
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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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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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
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I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
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What we are seeing here is environmental injustice.
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As I said this morning, I am not impressed by the opportunities open to popular fronts throughout the world. I do not believe that any democrat can successfully ride that tiger. But I do believe in the necessity of great powers working together to preserve the human race, or otherwise we can be destroyed.
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The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.
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It's funny, I used to say on 'That 70's Show', you could really put us in any decade, and it was about the people and the characters and that we cared about each other.
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It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.
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Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.
