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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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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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
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Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with great works rather than having to just see them in museums. People who are buying art at the top of the market as an investment are foolish.
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Let's try to count the number of Nobel prize-winners that have emerged from scientific centres of excellence like the Weizmann Institute and Haifa's technical university, the Technion. There has to be at least 25.
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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.
