Billy Porter Quotes
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that.
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My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.
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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
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O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
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Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise.
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Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
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There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait.
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There are roughly 22,000 Palestinians working side by side with what you call settlers in factories and malls in the West Bank. If you work together, you start understanding each other.
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Financial risk is always associated with drug discovery. But the benefit that a blockbuster drug can bring to the business can be phenomenal if you can take that risk.
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I wanted to have a free life.
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Heroes and victims are the product of the mood they were in when opportunity came or when circumstances were at their worst.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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And in a flash I understood the meaning of sex. It is a craving for the mingling of consciousness, whose symbol is the mingling of bodies. Every time a man and a woman slake their thirst in the strange waters of the other's identity, they glimpse the immensity of their freedom.
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From the development of the textile loom two centuries ago to today's Internet, output per hour has increased fifty fold.
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I didn't learn to drive until I was 65 and my husband was seriously ill.
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I've always used songwriting as a way to help me organise reality.
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Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless friendship is freely given, it means nothing and less than nothing.
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If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.
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We need to understand that whatever we do, we're all human beings first.
