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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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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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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I kick it with a whole bunch of people, whereas some people only want you to kick it with one race, you know.
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People have seen me at my best, but I don't think most of them know everything that it took to get me to where I am today.
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We want to raise the children the parents aren't raising. I think we want to press individuality on people, though that doesn't necessarily mean being like us. But, it doesn't mean that if you come dressed like us that you aren't being yourself.
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I will never, ever forget the electricity I felt the first time I listened to the 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - and many times since.
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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.
