William Broad (Billy Idol) Quotes

The world goes on, you go on and you change. You want to show the fans those changes, and you want to be able to verbalize them.

William Broad Generation X

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• For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

  

  Dana Fox
  • Amazing
  • Thought
  • Awesome

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!

  

  Karen O
  • Really
  • Bass
  • Ace

• Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • World
  • Black
  • Longevity

• I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • World
  • Respect

• The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Choice

• In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Society
  • Doing
  • Back

• Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • America
  • Confusion
  • Only

• I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • People
  • Respect
  • Decisions

• Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Ignorance
  • Case
  • Bliss

• Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Love
  • Learn
  • For Her

• It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

  

  Beatrice Webb
  • Identity
  • Mysterious
  • Own

• I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Audience
  • Moved
  • Active

• I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Lost
  • Myself
  • Like

• Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • World
  • Live
  • Women

• It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Bad
  • Trust
  • Language

• The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Song
  • Start

• I'm not planning a career change - not unless they need someone who constantly falls on the ice and is out of breath all the time.

  

  Scott Wolf
  • Career
  • Ice
  • Falls

• We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.

  

  Charles Hamilton Houston
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I sang everything - R&B slow jams, Spanish slow jams, romantic reggaeton - and I really didn't care which I got signed for.

  

  Prince Royce
  • Romantic
  • Spanish

• This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.

  

  Asa Gray

• The world goes on, you go on and you change. You want to show the fans those changes, and you want to be able to verbalize them.

  

  William Broad Generation X
  • World