Billy Bragg Quotes

I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.

Billy Bragg

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• Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Want
  • Living
  • Old

• Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Peace
  • Tolerance
  • Sibling

• A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Film
  • Lose
  • Los Angeles

• I was never a big-company type of person, and my ideal job was to be self-employed. The ironic thing is you work a lot harder for yourself than you do for anybody else.

  

  Xochi Birch
  • Work
  • Job
  • Yourself

• International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Want
  • Play
  • Lights

• I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Morning

• Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • History
  • Peace
  • Happiness

• It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Gift

• When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Government
  • Struggle
  • Nickel

• There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Idea
  • Place
  • Heroic

• I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • Life
  • Work
  • Business

• Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • People
  • Work
  • Game

• I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • School
  • Fashion
  • Loved

• I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Up
  • Country
  • Mountain

• People want to talk about whether I have rock cred, whether I'm selling out, the theatricality, the gay stuff... Chill out! And just enjoy yourself.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • People
  • Rock
  • Gay

• The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Money
  • Together
  • Government

• I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Job
  • Know
  • Lucky

• I had a lot of fun playing a naagin. It is all fantasy, so it was great.

  

  Karishma Tanna
  • Great
  • Fun

• A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Life
  • Science
  • Distribution Of Wealth

• I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.

  

  Colin Hay Men at Work
  • People
  • Perception

• I myself am not comfortable with the notion of secularists congregating in groups, except perhaps for defensive purposes: the last thing a secularist should wish to do is to act like a religion, with its rigid hierarchies, its suppression of divergent opinion, and, above all, its ruthless attempts (now mercifully inhibited by laws) to outlaw "heresy" by brute force. Opinions must be changed, one at a time if necessary, but if there are those who wish to persist in religious belief, they should certainly be allowed to do so.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • Groups
  • Notion
  • Secularists

• I'm not a girl who sits home and knits, you know.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Home
  • Girl
  • Know

• I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.

  

  Billy Bragg