Billy Corgan (William Patrick "Billy" Corgan Jr.) Quotes
People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it.Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
Quotes to Explore
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
Harrison Ford -
If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.
Laura Dern -
Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
Vidya Balan -
Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
Ingrid Newkirk -
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
A. A. Milne -
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
Barton Gellman
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
Gary Numan -
And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.
Warren Rudman -
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston -
My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
Abbas Kiarostami -
I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
Kate Upton -
I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
M. Ward
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
Yoko Ono -
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Oliver Goldsmith -
To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
Major Taylor -
It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
Harold Hamm -
What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.
Natasha Richardson -
The track is fast and I appreciate anything is possible.
Yohan Blake
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When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
It's OK to stay at a job that you don't enjoy, because you're scared.
John Rampton -
I want to be strong. I want to be able to hit people. I want people to be able to bounce off me. When I go out there and play, I play to intimidate people. If someone gets hit down by me, they're going to think twice about coming near me again.
Carli Lloyd -
There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.
William James -
People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it.
Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins