Will Oldham (Bonnie "Prince" Billy) Quotes
Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.
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I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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I think a woman looks best in a sari.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
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I had so many faux-parents.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.
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Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?
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We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
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I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.
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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
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'All-Star Wonder Woman' would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my 'spare time.' I just ended up with less and less time to devote to it. Eventually, we all realized that it was taking forever, so we just all agreed to hold off on it 'til the time was right to do it properly. Well, I still have a contract; DC never tore it up.
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I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
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My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.
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Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.
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When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.
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God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.
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If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off.
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Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.
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Every time I'm home from tour I try to write some new songs, but it can get really hard trying to keep up with normal life, I always get so behind.
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Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.
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Do not despise anyone: an atom shadowing.
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Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.
