Billy Higgins Quotes
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
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To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.
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I am a very good driver - a defensive driver.
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Obviously, we think it's important to make sure that firearms do not get in the hands of people who are criminals, convicted felons or adjudicated as mentally ill.
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The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.
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Those forest reserves are not merely for the convenience and benefit of the people near them, but they are the property of the nation and for its greatest good. It is unreasonable to suppose that they should be destroyed or imperiled for any local convenience, as a mere present to men engaged in one local industry.
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The United States is a beautiful place, you know?
