Billy Corgan (William Patrick "Billy" Corgan Jr.) Quotes
The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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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.
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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.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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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.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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.
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Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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Sometimes I feel like a man; sometimes I feel like a child.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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At the structural level, when the primary is all that matters, the incentives change for politicians. And, when you can earn media coverage with bombast and vitriol, that creates another incentive for politicians to light things on fire.
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I don't like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there's a war.
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Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.
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God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!
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I'm not in the type of work where you should rest.
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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.
