Billy Mays Quotes
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.
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I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.
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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
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When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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Obviously I like pretty girls, but I'm also looking for someone who can take control. I know guys complain about girls telling them what to do, but I think we all kind of enjoy it.
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The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.
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I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.
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Music is not just a part of my everday life, I'm surrounded by it every minute.
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What I loved about wrestling was just being foolish, so I studied clown. I studied clown. I studied the art of clown. I actually did my thesis on clown.
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The whole point of bike-sharing is to give New Yorkers another way to commute. A lot of folks in Bay Ridge work in downtown Brooklyn or other parts of the borough. For them, it would make more sense to hop on a Citi Bike than to wait for a train or a bus.
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I try to pack light with a folding leather suit bag. Anything more than five days, I need to check in my luggage. What takes the most space? Chef jackets, aprons and tools.
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Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.
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I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.
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My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.
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I'm not a fan of capris. They actually shorten my legs.
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Before you throw it away, let Mighty Mendit save the day.
