Johnny Borrell Quotes
I’m the best songwriter of my generation. Ask me in 20 years about the Libertines.
Quotes to Explore
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To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Nothing is absolute in security.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
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I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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Every member of Congress deserves a seat at the table to be involved in the process. I will continue fighting for this to become a reality in Washington, and will be running for speaker of the House.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
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Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
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I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.
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Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.
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I’m the best songwriter of my generation. Ask me in 20 years about the Libertines.
