Billy Childish Quotes

I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.

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• Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Home
  • Win
  • Changes

• It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Want
  • Problem
  • Complexity

• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Lie
  • Measure
  • Tape

• I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Modeling

• I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Important
  • Small

• You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Up
  • God
  • Love

• I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • Animal
  • Reflect

• When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Want
  • Me
  • Inspired

• It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Experience
  • America
  • Black

• An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Will
  • Questions
  • Ordinary

• When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Own
  • Office
  • My Own

• Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Experience
  • You
  • Acting

• Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Goal
  • Gift
  • Adulthood

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Want
  • Best
  • Players

• Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Work
  • Space
  • Dress

• My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Real
  • She
  • Comedy

• Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Discrimination

• Martin Scorsese was being given an honorary doctorate, and one of the tutors asked if there was a student film he particularly liked. He mentioned our film. There was a dinner after the final show just for the tutors, but I was smuggled in to meet Scorsese over dessert.

  

  Asif Kapadia

• I personally love Essie because they're such a good brush, and it's so easy to apply. I always go red. If I'm in doubt, I go red.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Good
  • Doubt
  • Red

• In my opinion the separation of the c- and ac-stars is the most important advancement in stellar classification since the trials by Vogel and Secchi ... To neglect the c-properties in classifying stellar spectra, I think, is nearly the same thing as if a zoologist, who has detected the deciding differences between a whale and a fish, would continue classifying them together.

  

  Ejnar Hertzsprung
  • Fish
  • Separation
  • Advancement

• Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Music
  • TV
  • Sweater

• I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.

  

  Billy Childish
  • Music