Brian Fallon Quotes
I've always said it's easier for bands to make a hard stance - like, we don't do commercials or whatever, blah blah blah - when you've sold billions of records. It's super-easy to be righteous when you're rich.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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My favorite makeup look was for my 'Eyes Wide Open' video done by Torsten Witte. It was so dramatic and definitely captured the magic of the video.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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I love New York.
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
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The ideal would be to have a career like Meryl Streep's or Kate Winslet's. It's just unbelievable how they manage to make such incredible choices one after the other. If you could have a career anything like that, then that would be a great thing.
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In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.
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On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.
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The central question driving literary aesthetics in the age of the iPad is no longer 'How should novels be?' but 'Why write novels at all?'
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Lying is the rule, not the exception.
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'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.
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I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty.
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Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face. Sometimes, I think he turns 10 to 15 years younger when I deliver a hit.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal.
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A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.
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It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance and that mix. I think that, especially, goes for the monarchy as well.
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I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!
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I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed the president himself would be killed by it.
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I was not concerned. In the past, we would have folded.
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Leadership starts at the top.
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I've always said it's easier for bands to make a hard stance - like, we don't do commercials or whatever, blah blah blah - when you've sold billions of records. It's super-easy to be righteous when you're rich.
