Billy Bragg Quotes

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.

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• Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Good
  • Great
  • Service

• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • World
  • Nature
  • Team

• There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Life
  • Police

• Everything's so accelerated now.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Everything
  • Now

• Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Money
  • Government
  • Numbers

• The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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  • May
  • Thought

• I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.

  

  Kate Winslet
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  • Up
  • World

• I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • World
  • Great
  • Long

• Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.

  

  H. R. McMaster
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  • Think
  • Environment

• My mom has always been very open, very liberal. So I grew up with that, and I can appreciate everything that she did and went through and was exposed to.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Up
  • She
  • Mom

• The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.

  

  Jack Keane
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  • Up
  • Men

• I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

  

  M. Ward
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• Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Son

• Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Experience
  • Leadership

• I have no new voices - they've all been used.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • New
  • Used
  • Voices

• In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Book
  • Age
  • Words

• The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government that exists - or ever existed, or ever will exist - is a kleptocracy, meaning "rule by thieves." Competing ideologies merely provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what they produce.

  

  L. Neil Smith
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  • Important
  • Government

• My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.

  

  Carl Schurz
  • Country
  • Right
  • Wrong

• If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Deep

• By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.

  

  Billy Bragg
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