Bill Callahan Quotes
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By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
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The media is controlled.
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The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.
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I met Jared Leto at Soho House in Berlin.
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I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
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The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.
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Retired life's good, man.
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My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
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I converted Dec. 31, 1999. It was a Friday. That was my second time going to the mosque. The woman who is my wife now... was basically raised Muslim - and she was at that point where she was deciding or trying to come to terms with her own relationship with Islam and how to embrace that for herself.
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The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.
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When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.
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Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet he's treading water.
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Having girlfriends is... I can't do it. It doesn't mean I don't hang out with girls. It just means that I don't like being in a relationship, because it makes things very complicated. The one piece of advice that I listen to adults on - because I don't listen to adults when it comes to most things - is that I'm too young to have a girlfriend.
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To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.
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We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.
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It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.
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As a kid, I was just a kid. Average.
