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.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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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.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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Everything's so accelerated now.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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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.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.
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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.
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I have no new voices - they've all been used.
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I think that's the thing I learned at 'Saturday Night Live' - any time I would try and strategize, I would always, always fall on my face. Things worked out when I tried to make it about what I was feeling at that moment and what I was into in that moment of my life.
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Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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When I was young, I told my sister that she had chunky thighs. She slapped me and I cried. She feels bad about it to this day, but I feel worse.
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Put on your yarmulkahHere comes HannukahSo much funnukahTo celebrate Hannukah
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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.
