Billy Parish Quotes
Any waste stream in our society can be turned into a revenue stream. It's turning the lemons in our society into lemonade.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
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I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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I'm not at all a hero. I'm a wussy.
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One thing I've learned, and I don't really blame anybody for this: most people who have a lot of money are the people that want to make money more than anyone. I've seen it with athletes, I've seen it with musicians, you know?
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Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.
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All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
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There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.
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I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
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I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.
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As you get older, the summer is less of a vacation and more of a training period by yourself away from the team. It's exciting for me. I felt like I've been really getting better as far as my conditioning every single season as I get older.
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The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.
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We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
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It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.
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I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.
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Any waste stream in our society can be turned into a revenue stream. It's turning the lemons in our society into lemonade.
