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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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
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Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.
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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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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
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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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I'm not a good dancer, but I try. I don't really have the moves.
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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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I'm not totally sure what I want to be doing, but it's so fun to be on 'SNL' because you get exposed to so many different people and so many different experiences. It's a cool, lucky way to break into the business.
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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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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.
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I can't think about whether I'll disappoint Sonic Youth fans. It's not like I want people to be disappointed, but I just can't control that.
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Women are such incredible people. We're so multifaceted, we're so interesting, and any opportunity to celebrate that - because there's been many years of not being able to - and expose what it's like to be female and how we can be whoever we want to be, and do whatever we want to do, is great.
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Most of the people I know who work out seriously do so because they have such an amazing outlook on life. To be who I want to be, I'm going to work out to be more positive, more active. It's proactive.
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I remember when I first started having these interpretations of these images, these cliches of what movie stars are and this and that, and they're egomaniacal pricks and tyrants, but in general, for the most part, they're nice people to tell you the truth.
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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.
