Billy Bragg Quotes

It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me.

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• I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.

  

  Kat Graham
  • More
  • Still
  • Brown

• Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Together
  • Me
  • Play

• Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Focus
  • Gym
  • Very

• The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Business
  • Failure

• Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • College
  • Painting
  • Arts

• Women are not all single-issue voters.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Women
  • Single
  • Voters

• The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Moral
  • Story
  • Temporary

• I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Live
  • High

• Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Space

• I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Literature
  • Missing
  • Japanese

• Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Leather

• The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Movie
  • Reality
  • Kind

• I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Think

• When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • You

• The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Believe
  • Dad
  • Myself

• Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • May
  • Think

• For Those Who Were There And Are Not.For Those Who Were There And Are For Him. But Most, For Her.

  

  James Clavell

• Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Mountain

• I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Myself

• It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.

  

  Brendan Gill
  • Nature
  • Small

• One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • People
  • Job
  • Lost

• It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me.

  

  Billy Bragg
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