Billy Nungesser Quotes
They said the black oil wouldn't come ashore. Well, it is ashore. It's here to stay and it's going to keep coming.
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With 'Palo Alto' as the catalyst, I've surrounded myself with people that have kind of created a world where I can feel like I'm not gonna be judged for doing something that I want to do.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize our experiences in the Earth school so that we can recognize our options as we move through our lives.
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My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward of appearance of living what he was preaching. She was the PR.
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I enjoy roles that are quite physical.
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Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.
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We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another.
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I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.
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Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
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Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what's going on in your life.
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I am much more productive late at night because I have no one to look to for entertainment aside from myself.
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I am sensitive to the fact that other people may have different beliefs.
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I give the degrees of things seen by the eye as the musician does of the sounds heard by the ear.
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Jim Crow laws stripped blacks of basic rights. Despite landmark civil rights laws, many public schools were still segregated, blacks still faced barriers to voting, and violence by white racists continued. Such open racism is mostly gone in America, but covert racism is alive and well.
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Rhetoric that vilifies American Muslims is counter to our efforts. It's a setback to our Homeland Security efforts.
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My favorite days off on the road are typically nowhere, like Bismarck, North Dakota, and you find yourself in a mall, and you're like, 'This is awesome!'
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When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.
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I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.
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I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because I was always using her as my mother, if you know what I mean.
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When I was a kid, I'd always wanted to take karate, but my parents wouldn't let me because I did a lot of other things, including ballet.
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Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there's a danger: a constituent who actually wants something done. Or worse, a campaign donor who might be offended by that something.
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We will die a slow death over the next two years as this oil creeps ashore.
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We're just physically not physical enough.
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They said the black oil wouldn't come ashore. Well, it is ashore. It's here to stay and it's going to keep coming.
