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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What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.
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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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We are anxious and open to all forms of doing business in China.
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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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I came out to my parents as gay, and then I realized, you know, four or five years later, that I wasn't really happy, no relationships were working, and there was something missing in my life, and you know, I was doing drag, performing and stuff, and I realized through that arc that I was much happier doing that.
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I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, "Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect.
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When you see a person squirming in the clutches of the Law, say to him: 'Brother, get things straight. You let the Law talk to your conscience. Make it talk to your flesh.
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In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.
