Bill Callahan Quotes
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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'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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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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Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
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There is this great danger in student life. Now, we rest all upon what Socrates said, or what Copernicus taught; how can we dispute authority which has come down to us, all established, for ages? We must at least question it; we cannot accept anything as granted, beyond the first mathematical formulae. Question everything else.
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As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.
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We owe each other a debt and we owe each other an obligation, and because of these fundamental American imperatives, there are things that we own in common with each other, and that we are obliged to protect for our posterity. The water. The trees. The wild places in the land. We lose sight of these truths sometimes.
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To sustain a governing majority, that requires an ability for Republicans and Democrats to find some common ground. And right now, the structure of the system is such where it makes it really hard for people to work together.
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No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me.
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Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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In my concerts, I'm always doing new songs, so someone seeing me for the first time or many times before will be pleasantly surprised and hopefully entertained.
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As a kid, I was just a kid. Average.
