Billy Bragg Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
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'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.
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The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.
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The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.
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Sometimes, men just need a little push. Men won't always be like, 'You are so beautiful. You look great today.' And sometimes women want to hear that.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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If you want to believe that the government's coming for our guns or that being gay is a choice and a sin or that ObamaCare signals the end of civilization or that cutting taxes for rich people is the path to a better America, that's your choice. I'm never going to believe in any of that.
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An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.
