William Broad (Billy Idol) Quotes
It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.
Quotes to Explore
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To be is to do.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.
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I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.
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My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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I don't care if I get $50m to do a film.
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Allow yourself to graduate, every five years.
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Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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I love to stay at home and write.
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It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.
