Bill Konigsberg Quotes
Wouldn't it be nice if we lived in a world where no one thought being gay was even something to ride someone about?
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If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.
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Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technology, are subject to the law of diminishing returns, there is a danger of overscheduling the young.
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My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.
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I wanna live.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.
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The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.
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I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.
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Everyone is looking for the hack, the secret to success without hard work.
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The combination of a brand like Cartier and the immense heritage that India holds can go places.
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An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.
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I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.
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We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe.
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All corporatism – even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea – encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.
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Wouldn't it be nice if we lived in a world where no one thought being gay was even something to ride someone about?
