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'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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Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
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Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.
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Scientists normally like to do experiments. You know, they like to mix this with that and see what happens. They like to take this thing and poke it and see how it reacts. In astronomy, we can't do that. The stars, the planets, the galaxies, are so far away that we just look at them, and we have to learn things by looking at them.
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I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.
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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
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With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form.
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I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy.
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When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.
