Bill Jay Quotes
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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I don't actually go out and pursue a route that will fit me best, it's just that something comes to me and I enjoy it and want to be a part of it.
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Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.
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Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it.
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I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.
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If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing.
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The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.
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I do movies I would go to see.
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People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.
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Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
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I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time.
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Every second I have spare, I'm with my kids.
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Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard.
