Billy Corgan (William Patrick "Billy" Corgan Jr.) Quotes
Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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The 2012 superstorm known as Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc beyond the Eastern Seaboard and reached Northeast Ohio as well, with heavy rain, wind gusts of nearly 70 miles per hour and waves on Lake Erie reaching 15 to 18 feet.
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It is now clear that the costly regulatory burdens imposed by this legislation absolutely outweigh its benefits. The PCAOB and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act raise unconstitutional barriers to needed liquidity, discourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and hinder U.S. competitiveness by denying access to needed capital. Further, the high cost of compliance that disproportionately affects smaller public companies is having long-term, exponential negative implications for our economy.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me 'I love you.' … There is an African saying which is: 'Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.'
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Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.
