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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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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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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When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With a real historical figure you have to be fair, and this is not an obligation you have in dealing with your own creations, so it is quite different.
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There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.
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I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.
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I'm way too hypersensitive.
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I'm saying there's plenty of money out there for great consumer entrepreneurs with great consumer products attacking really big markets.
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Money is the source of the greatest vice, & that Nation which is most rich, is most wicked.
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I can't stand the lyrics.
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I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.
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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.
