Billy Bragg Quotes
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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
Octavia E. Butler -
I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
Candy Crowley -
We all have our strengths and our failings.
Hannah Simone -
A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
Eartha Kitt -
The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
Maimonides -
I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
Karl Lagerfeld
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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
Gary Miller Bad Brains -
People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
Ian Mckellen -
You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
Vanessa Bayer -
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
Ralph Ellison -
No two wars are identical.
Kate Adie -
I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
Victoria Pendleton
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Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.
Ted Cruz -
Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.
Kate Mara -
I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
Being a father is just wonderful.
Sam Trammell -
Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.
Barry Sanders -
People are people, and I get a bit annoyed that the music business only focuses in on the big metropolises. I find that people that don't live in big cities are just as likely to enjoy music as people that do live in big cities.
Eddi Reader
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One problem we discovered, for example, was that our "create a new account" button was in the wrong place...By simply moving it to the left side, mirroring the way people read, we saw a huge improvement in the way people used the site.
Marc Benioff -
My heroes were all in the theatre.
Damian Lewis -
I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't crave rich food.
Jennifer Ellison -
So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.
Eric Alterman -
I'm much more comfortable in a meritocracy and in reward for good work as opposed to a political environment, where I feel like all of that can be confused.
Desiree Rogers -
We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.
Billy Bragg