Bill Callahan Quotes

I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was.

Bill Callahan

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• Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Money
  • Done
  • Home

• The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Lucky

• I look forward to working with UNICEF as they continue to make the world a better place for children.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • World
  • Children
  • Better

• In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Child
  • Model
  • Information

• The first bike that I bought was a Triumph 650. I really like the Triumph 650. I mean, of course, I've driven Harleys, and I think in 'Savage Seven' I drove an Indian, but - I really love Triumph.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • Think
  • Like
  • Bike

• I always like to sing barefoot.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Like
  • Always
  • Barefoot

• Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Time
  • Period
  • Youth

• When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Mother
  • Day
  • Air

• My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Great
  • Mother

• If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• After reading and studying and getting in touch with the amount of information that I had while I was researching to play Pablo, it just reinforced the idea that I had that the war on drugs is a big flop.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • War
  • Reading
  • Information

• Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Sometimes
  • Profound
  • Wrong

• I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Effort

• Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Long
  • Writing

• I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Night
  • Problem
  • Saturday

• This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • World
  • Love
  • Better

• Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?

  

  Beah Richards
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Meet

• This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Music
  • Enough
  • Sarcasm

• There are as many jobs for younger Americans as there are for other Americans of every age group in political campaigns. Campaigns are very labor intensive and volunteer dependent.

  

  Marc Racicot
  • Age
  • Political
  • Volunteer

• The main thing my bookcase says about me is that I'm not French.

  

  Pamela Druckerman

• ‎It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Injustice
  • Pull
  • Bootstraps

• All the posters on the walls All the leaflets in the streets Are mutilated, destroyed or run in rain, Their words blotted out with tears, Skins peeling from their bodies In the victorious hurricane.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Body
  • Tears
  • Rain

• The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid erosion, pollution, environmental degradation, and resource waste. Any rational food-production system will emphasize the well-being of the soil-air-water biosphere, the creatures which inhabit it, and the human beings who depend upon it.

  

  Eliot Coleman
  • Long
  • Technology
  • Term

• I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was.

  

  Bill Callahan