Billy West Quotes
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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I am interested in the subject which is Russia.
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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My parents have Google Alerts on me. So they'll often times send me an e-mail and be like, 'Hey did you know this?' And then I'll be like, 'Well, it is, like, my life. So yes, I did know that.' Or, 'That's not even true. I don't know where you read that.' I have Googled myself, yes. But my parents really have Google Alerts on me.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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The Devonian and Cornishman will be found by the visitor to be courteous and hospitable. There is no roughness of manner where unspoiled by periodic influx of strangers; he is kindly, tender-hearted, and somewhat suspicious.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.
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I've always felt that children are the flowers of our future.
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When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
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Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.
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Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.
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I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
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I have known Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for a long time. He is a good man. He is a decent man.
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When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.
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It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.
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Some of the people in my caucus, some of the people in the state party in Minnesota have basically said, "We don't want to deal with these guys because they're too conservative," or "We don't agree with them on social issues."
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I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.
