Billy Bragg Quotes
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.
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I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.
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The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?
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If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
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Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up.
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I'm a rock and roll singer.
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Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.
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I would definitely want kids. Would they be dancers? I dunno. That's up to them. If they show interest, I will push them do the best. I was not brought up in a dancer's family. I was brought up in a family where the mentality was whatever you do, you gotta try to be the best at it.
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I had this belief that I couldn't just accept to be treated as an object. It was a problem of dignity.
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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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My idea was you can't dress for the stage, you have to dress all the time like you're onstage. And so I would just always wear suits or some form of it. I wanted people to know I played music. That was kind of how you would find other people: you would just walk around looking a certain way and end up meeting someone who liked the way you look.
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Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you're about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport.
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Southeast Asia is now a region full of hope because of the freedoms America has helped foster.
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Even if information is not marked classified in an email, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
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Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend.
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I'm fascinated by evil queens. They're very alluring and repellent at the same time, and I'm into that dichotomy.
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Church is the textured context in which we grow up in Christ to maturity. But church is difficult. Sooner or later, though, if we are serious about growing up in Christ, we have to deal with church. I say sooner.
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My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.
