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've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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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'm not a good enough singer to pull off the effect.
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I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.
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The strategy of semantic ascent is that it carries the discussion into a domain where both parties are better agreed on the objects (viz., words) and on the main terms connecting them. Words, or their inscriptions, unlike points, miles, classes and the rest, are tangible objects of the size so popular in the marketplace, where men of unlike conceptual schemes communicate at their best. The strategy is one of ascending to a common part of two fundamentally disparate conceptual schemes, the better to discuss the disparate foundations. No wonder it helps in philosophy.
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My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about how there are all these different ways you can be intelligent, like eight or 10 of them or something. And one of them is emotional.
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No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.
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Recognize the remarkable individuals in your life who help you envision a world far beyond yourself.
