Billy Duffy Quotes

A band like the Cult was never, ever destined to be super huge, because it's just never going to be for everybody. But I think the Cult is multifaceted, and that gives us a longevity.

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• Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Space
  • Choices
  • Page

• Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Together
  • Happy

• I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • World
  • Day

• As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Women
  • Nature
  • Journey

• You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • You
  • Teach
  • Old

• Er, Tom, I hate to be the one to point this out, but your fix list is starting to resemble a feature list. You must be human or something.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Hate

• I’ve always said there’s no hope without endeavor. Hope has no meaning unless we are prepared to work to realize our hopes and dreams but in order to that we do need to have friends. We need those who believe in us. Friends are those who believe in us and who want to help us whatever it is that we are trying to achieve.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Trying

• It's cool when the O-line gets the chance to get some notoriety.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • Cool

• Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • Black

• The Marianne Vos Route goes through the seven villages of Aalburg, where I grew up, and celebrates my World and Olympic titles with a number of benches along the route, where you can stop and rest your legs. You'll see the white windmill in Meeuwen and, in Babylonienbroek, a statue of the silver bike I rode to celebrate my Olympic track win.

  

  Marianne Vos
  • Up
  • World
  • Stop

• It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.

  

  Andrew Cohen
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• When in doubt, throw it out.

  

  Jeremy Jackson
  • Doubt

• If I had come out with an album called 'Brendon Urie Does...' everyone would have been like, 'Who?' Even five albums in, I'm still faceless wherever I go, which is great.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Great

• It's my job, with the position of power that I'm in and being able to be on television, I'm supposed to stand up for the people who can't stand up for themselves.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• You don't want to do something that's all terrifying.

  

  Maurice Sendak

• Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Up
  • Good
  • Food

• After the verdict was read in the Simpson case, as the jury was leaving, one of them, I was later told, said, 'We think he probably did it. We just didn't think they proved it beyond a reasonable doubt.'

  

  Marcia Clark
  • Doubt
  • Leaving

• I have a world of respect for Congressman Dold and the service he's given to our country.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • World
  • Country
  • Respect

• A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

  

  Matt Cameron Soundgarden
  • Time
  • Success
  • Band

• All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together.

  

  Joan Armatrading
  • Together
  • Band

• Nobody's dumb in this relationship [with his wife] or in the relationships of any of the other guys in the band. But it's also not the cliché that those on the outside envision.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Guy
  • Relationship
  • Wife

• Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Purpose
  • Failure
  • Drifting

• Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine

  

  Ursula Hegi
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Faith

• A band like the Cult was never, ever destined to be super huge, because it's just never going to be for everybody. But I think the Cult is multifaceted, and that gives us a longevity.

  

  Billy Duffy The Cult
  • Band
  • Destined
  • The Cult