Billy Corgan (William Patrick "Billy" Corgan Jr.) Quotes
This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.
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I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.
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I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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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.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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You know what I would love? I would love to be one of those actresses who can come out with a film or come out with a new commercial without the world knowing about it.
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Can we change the world? No, but hell, we can all try.
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It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.
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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
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I am out of season all years round - watch machinery roar to my empty sound.Touch my heart and feel winter, hold my hand and be doomed forever.
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This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.
