Billy Corgan (William Patrick "Billy" Corgan Jr.) Quotes
When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.
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It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
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I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.
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I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.
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You can tell black artists are front and centre when Usher discovers and launches Justin Bieber.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.
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If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.
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I date, don't get me wrong. I'm not up here filing my fingernails on a Friday night. I want to find someone to share my life with.
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The most I like about cooking is eating what someone else has cooked.
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I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.
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I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn't messing with nature too much. She seems like a woman who treats her body like a temple. I cannot relate to that!
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Sure, Kill Bill's a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.
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I myself am part of the youth movement. However, after a long discussion, it appears that many of the youth demands and needs, like access to education, jobs, and equitable growth, have been addressed under different goals and targets and youth enjoy the benefits of everything else in the report.
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In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it is not enough to read Pickwick and memorize a monologue from Faust.... You need to work continually day and night, to read ceaselessly, to study, to exercise your will.... Each hour is precious.
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I have a clear record, both publicly and privately, of saying Alito and Roberts are what we want on the Supreme Court.
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Melody Maker: Did Andy Wood's death and then Kurt Cobain's affect your attitude to drugs?
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It's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.
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Yes, my love, who soever lives, loses, . . . but he also wins.
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I'm not interested in anything besides making some good music, helping some artists, being an executive. I'm pretty happy with that.
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When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.
