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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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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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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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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All of the awards, applause, Twitter followers, shoes, it will all go away eventually. But if I can leave the world slightly more hopeful, inspired, and more healed than when I arrived, I did my job.
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What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.
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Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
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My nature is feminist. How could you not be a feminist and be alive? The world is full of brilliant, interesting women.
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Before I started MakerBot, I was creating cool stuff and sharing it with the Internet. That's how I knew all the folks at BoingBoing, at Engadget and Gizmodo.
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All of us in social media and regular media, we're all competing for the same thing, which is this gap between something happening in the world and you knowing about it.
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I'm a cowboy. I wear a hat. I drive a 4x4 Silverado diesel truck. I've got a farm.
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We had to go on the road and dig some games out. In certain areas, we gave ourselves an opportunity. But the bottom line is the area that we said we had to control to win we didn't. That was taking away the three from them.
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Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn't happen. If that's the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.
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Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.
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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.
