Billy Bragg Quotes

I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.

Billy Bragg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 20, 1957

Topics

WarListeningSayingLettersIsland

When you have a problem, rules don't solve your problem. It's caring and education.

Jim Brown

EducationCaringProblemYouRules

If you want to slice into America, it's pretty red, white, and blue in terms of how it goes about things, but there's a gray area there, and I've always been interested in where things are complicated.

Robert Redford

RedBlueAmericaYouWhiteWant

These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.

Michael Bloomberg

New YorkPeopleChallengesLegalRun

Of course it's important to make mistakes, as long as you grow from them.

Michael Douglas

MistakesGrowLongYouImportant

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

Roland Barthes

SayingLiteratureWorthTroubleMust

I was raised in a very, very loving household. I had quite unusual parents, and my father has always been my hero.

Roxie Roker

FatherHeroParentsLovingAlways

By the time I got to WWE, I had a lot more confidence and willingness to speak up.

Mick Foley

ConfidenceTimeSpeakMoreUpGot

What I've always lacked is a really strong band to back me up.

Mick Taylor

MeStrongBackBandAlwaysUp

You know, a lot of people say they didn't want to die until the Red Sox won the World Series. Well, there could be a lot of busy ambulances tomorrow.

Johnny Damon

RedTomorrowPeopleWorldBusyDie

I really love good food occasionally, but I need time to enjoy it, and I need to be hungry.

Clare Balding

LoveGoodTimeFoodGood FoodEnjoy

You'll see that the strong, the affirmative, the positive voice in any of the plays I've written is that of a woman. My men are, well, not quite worthless, but they are certainly weak, and that reflects the reality I grew up with and what I think has in a sense shaped me.

Athol Fugard

PositiveMenWomanMeStrongThink

Americans think they're the leader of the world and yet can say that they're putting their economic interests ahead of the lives of - quite possibly - tens of millions of people who over the next 50 years will die because of floods or storms or tropical diseases or whatever. I guess that sort of thing makes me angry.

Peter Singer

LeaderAngryPeopleMeWorldThink

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