Will Oldham (Bonnie "Prince" Billy) Quotes
I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
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Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America's political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind.
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I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.
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I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.
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While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.
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He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him. Hence, the cost of production of a workman is restricted, almost entirely, to the means of subsistence that he requires for his maintenance, and for the propagation of his race.
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The thing that I love about acting is the fact that I can help people feel things, know themselves or feel less alone. It's my form of expression, in the same way that someone might paint a picture or sing a song in that you're hoping that it moves somebody outside of their own way of thinking.
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If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.
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The truth is overrated.
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Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.
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I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all of a sudden, live as an actor.
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Slipknot is the darkness; Stone Sour is the light. Slipknot is chaos; Stone Sour is structure.
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I would love to fight my clone.
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Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.
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I didn't wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We're all that forever, and I've just grown older. I mean, I haven't lost anything. I've gained a few things.
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After 9/11, the U.S. seemed vulnerable for the first time in a long time. We were no longer the superpower that no other country could touch. I thought, 'When and how did that dominance begin?'
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I think that emotionally, I've probably felt a little bit more balanced when I started writing again.
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I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.
