William Broad (Billy Idol) Quotes
There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don't.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
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I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
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Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.
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Desiring is a part of dreaming.
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The Seventies were just an interesting time for us because we were building the brand of the name but also varying the style of the music on each of the albums we did. Very creative time of us.
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Pretty much my whole life, I've been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.
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I believe in God. It's a big part of my life. You can bring it up and talk about it without being 'Christian Rocker.'
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The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.
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There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don't.
