Billy Corgan (William Patrick "Billy" Corgan Jr.) Quotes

For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right.

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• Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Needs
  • Cuba
  • Dose

• The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Direction

• Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • History
  • Story
  • First

• To oppose something is to maintain it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Something
  • Maintain
  • Oppose

• I love India.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Love
  • I Love
  • India

• I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

  

  Young Buck
  • Opportunity
  • Moving
  • Young

• I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there's an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's not how it happened.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Want
  • Just
  • Clear

• Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Happy
  • British
  • Dialect

• The federal government has gone too far on many nonessential regulations that are harming small businesses. Employers are rightly concerned about the costs of these regulations - so they stop hiring, stop spending, and start saving for a bill from the federal government.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Stop
  • Government

• Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Book
  • Fun
  • Energy

• I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • God
  • Movie
  • Acting

• One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you're the queen of comedy, and the next year, you're so 'yesterday,' and it's not because you've done anything, or your ability has changed; you haven't been in work because you've been putting on weight and then trying to lose it.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Done

• It's what every writer needs: a daybed.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Needs
  • Writer
  • Every

• I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Trying
  • Know
  • Always

• I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Like

• I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Change
  • College
  • Perception

• These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• You take wins where you can get them because they're not easy to come by. You win at the major-league level, and you've done something.

  

  Jake Peavy
  • Done

• I'd love to get into some comedy, but people keep saying, 'You're not funny!' And I say, 'Well, fair enough.' I have done comedy on stage.

  

  Ciaran Hinds
  • People
  • Done
  • Funny

• I'd love to do a love story. I've never done a true love story, which would be awesome. But then again, I don't think I've had a true love story, even in my own life. Maybe that's something I want to explore in my own life first.

  

  Lucas Hedges
  • Life
  • Done
  • True

• It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.

  

  David Zucker
  • Guy
  • Positive

• What joy the gospel gives me! I can approach the throne of God with confidence-not because I've done a good job at my spiritual duties, but because I'm clothed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
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