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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Growing up, I watched softball and U.S.A .softball, and that was my goal of being able to represent my country and wear the red, white, and blue out there, and I think it is one of the highest honors to be able to go out there and compete for your country, and it was something so very special, and it was everything I dreamt of and more.
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The whip's office is almost more educational - educating members on the bill itself, listening to members ahead of time.
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The pension system ties you to companies much longer in Japan.
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People have said to me, 'Why don't you change your name?' And I've said, 'Fine, come up with a better name and we'll change it.' But no one has done that.
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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.
