Bill Courtney Quotes
Recognize the remarkable individuals in your life who help you envision a world far beyond yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
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Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.
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Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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When I started out, I wanted to be the kind of artist who could play the CMA Music Festival and then turn around and play Bonnaroo, and I've managed to do both.
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History class was a forty-minute squirm from which I would emerge unscathed by insight. Down the hall in English Lit, though, there were stories to be had, and it was stories I craved.
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I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry is pretty well entrenched in the Republican Party and that's one of the things that we need to phase out.
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I've been very fortunate that I've worked since I left drama school in 1976.
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I have an organic garden and love being able to say, 'I'm going to see what I can pick to throw in my salad.'
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Go for greatness. Anything else is a waste of time.
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People thinks that being world No. 4 and the first seeded player of an event you have to win it, but we all know tennis does not work like this.
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Recognize the remarkable individuals in your life who help you envision a world far beyond yourself.
