Will Oldham (Bonnie "Prince" Billy) Quotes
I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.
Will Oldham
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
Carlos Ghosn
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I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.
Nathan Fielder
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
Mandy Patinkin
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As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?
Forest Whitaker
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
Ferguson Jenkins
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I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.
Van Morrison
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
E. O. Wilson
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All these songs honestly explore the ups and downs of my reality.
Adam Lambert
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If you can’t fuck it, and it doesn’t dance, eat it or throw it away.
Pat Cadigan
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Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.
Felix Frankfurter
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As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.
Orson Welles
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She was too alert, too alive not to have the kind of mind that probed and reached and got her into trouble now and then.
Octavia E. Butler