Bill Callahan Quotes
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
Nadia Comaneci -
I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
Gabrielle Union -
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
Harland Williams -
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
Queen Victoria -
When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.
Park Chan-wook
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. King -
I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
Abel Ferrara -
I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
Floyd Abrams -
Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
Barbara De Angelis -
He who is contented is rich.
Lao Tzu -
It's not a joke: I really do like being at home.
Karl Pilkington
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Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.
Ramana Maharshi -
Cultivating more leaders who reflect our heterogeneous society depends on universities' transparent use of race as one of many factors in an admissions process that is accessible to all.
Wendy Kopp -
I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France. This picture will be called 'The Blue Revolution'. It isn’t the fact of my taking power in France that interests me, but rather the possibility of creating a monochrome picture in my new manner: ‘The Refinement of Sensibility’.
Yves Klein -
By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd;The sports of children satisfy the child.
Oliver Goldsmith -
He can neither read nor write and in him already there broods a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.
Cormac McCarthy -
Interview with RIP Magazine, February 1993.
Jerry Cantrell
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I don't think we interbred with the Neanderthals at all. There are some people who think that there was some level of interbreeding. I think that we look so biologically different, that we looked and we acted so different, and we culturally were so different that we would not have had interbreeding between two species.
Donald Johanson -
The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.
Bill Copeland -
Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity of passion, and directness of impulse. Not width but intensity is the true aim of modern art. We are no longer in art concerned with the type. It is with the exception that we have to do. I cannot put my sufferings into any form they took, I need hardly say. Art only begins where Imitation ends, but something must come into my work, of fuller memory of words perhaps, of richer cadences, of more curious effects, of simpler architectural order, of some aesthetic quality at any rate.
Oscar Wilde -
All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.
Thomas Sowell -
Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.
Stephen Jay Gould -
I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol.
Bill Callahan