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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I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip.
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How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn't do it alone.
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Once, once for all, if you would save your heart from breaking, learn this lesson - once for all you must cease, in this world, to believe in the eternity of any creed or form at all. Whatever grows in time is a child of time, and is born and lives, and dies at its appointed day like ourselves.
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The GP, who she called immediately, fingers shaking as she dialled, exclaimed with joy. She didn't thinkdoctors were supposed to do that - register an emotional reaction to an outcome.
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Whatever you think rigor looks like, you should go up a few notches.
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This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.
