Billy Porter Quotes
For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.
Quotes to Explore
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If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.
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Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
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'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.
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Working out should be a key part of your life but not your whole life. When it is all a man could talk about, it becomes too much.
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My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
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Presumptuously, I speak for all Who fans when I say being a fan of the Who has incalculably enriched my life. What disturbs me about the Who is the way they smashed through every door of rock & roll, leaving rubble and not much else for the rest of us to lay claim to.
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You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something.
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I'm not a vegetarian by any means; I eat fish. But the problem with shark finning is they catch the shark, cut their fins and throw them back in the ocean, and to me, that's wrong. If you're going to kill an animal, you should use the entire animal and do it humanely. I'm definitely not a big fan.
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I don't get fazed by things easily. I don't really care about much; I'm just not interested in a lot. I'm just interested in the well being of my close ones, my music, the message I'm portraying, how my efforts are contributing to society.
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Believe me when I tell you my soul has squeezed into narrow spaces.
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What we are as a live band is different to what we are on recordings, but they're both equal versions: they're both LCD Soundsystem, but in very different ways.
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For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.
