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.
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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?
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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I look forward to working with UNICEF as they continue to make the world a better place for children.
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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.
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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.
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I always like to sing barefoot.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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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.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
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I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
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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.
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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.
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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.
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Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?
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This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.
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Why not mix this and that? If soy goes well with fish, how come no one does beef carpaccio with soy? Why do we have such a taste and not another? It's all about culture. There is something, however, that I really don't like: bell peppers.
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When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
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My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space.
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What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?
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I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was.
