Billy Corgan (William Patrick "Billy" Corgan Jr.) Quotes
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
Camille Paglia
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
Paloma Faith
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If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.
Nate Silver
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
Sally Mann
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
Tawakkol Karman
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
Usain Bolt
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Let the path be open to talent.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
Wally Lamb
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
Tamron Hall
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I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
Rain
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Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
Barack Obama
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I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.
Barry Eisler
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
Cameron Diaz
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For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identities than other superheroes. No one ever says, 'Peter Parker was a nerdy kid. He can't possibly be Spider-Man, attract a good-looking gal, work in a newspaper, etc.' And no one gets hung up on whether his nerdiness is a disguise.
Gary Frank
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Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.
Felix Baumgartner
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Gaston Bachelard
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In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.
Caprice Bourret
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I do see things that are funny on the net. I Googled myself the other day and found out that I was worth $250m, and that I was the highest-paid guy in show business! I wish so hard it was true. It is, of course, the complete opposite. I'm neither rich nor do I make a lot of money.
David Crosby
The Byrds
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The GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing.
Ben Bernanke
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Like, yes, we had a furniture fire get out of control in our backyard one time. But that didn't harm a single person.
Jake Paul
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Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine. That's how my band made it. We swam through a lot of shit together, we swallowed a lot of pride, but we managed to do what we needed to do.
Ray Charles
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I started an all-girl punk band when I was 14, and I was the drummer, not the singer.
Bjork
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The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
Billy Corgan
The Smashing Pumpkins
