Billy Bragg Quotes
Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.Billy Bragg
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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
J. B. Pritzker -
What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
Rachel McAdams -
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 -
Speaking is physically difficult for me.
Gabrielle Giffords -
I have the necessary lack of tact.
Ted Koppel -
The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
Barbara Mikulski
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
Federico Fellini -
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
Barbara Kingsolver -
All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
P. Chidambaram -
If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
Sam Kinison -
I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
Young Thug -
It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
Kate Atkinson
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
Manny Pacquiao -
I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
Lal Bahadur Shastri -
We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Rand Paul -
Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.
Kate Bush -
Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
Nadia Boulanger -
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
Pablo Picasso
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I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.
Lady Gaga -
Crack used to be called freebase when white rich people did it. Then it got sold in batches, and white rich people were still doing it, and it was still called freebase. And then all of a sudden this guy named Ricky Freeway Ross started making it and he happened to be black, and- everything is political- and, then it turned into 'crack.'
Courtney Love -
So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.
Charles Hodge -
I didn't think I was going to get any medals, and so it was great to get silver.
Sasha Cohen -
Of particular importance to us is the recognition... that what we want is a Europe of nations, not a federal super-state.
Tony Blair -
Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.
Billy Bragg