Billy Childish Quotes

I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.

Billy Childish

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 1, 1959

Topics

MusicNew YorkMeSurpriseFeelNew

If you write a song, and you go into a restaurant, and there's a guy with a piano singing and he's playing piano, singing your song, or you hear it at a wedding or at an airport... it's fun!

Jesse Harris

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The '50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way, and then the '60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS.

Robert Klein

RememberBoringWaySocialStuff

Science began as one of the noblest expressions of man's reason. It will continue to serve humanity so long as it never forgets that human beings remain the heart of its purpose.

Robert Kennedy

HeartScienceManPurposeHumanity

I had this ego that was unstable. If you said anything about me good or bad, it really went to my head.

Metta World Peace

GoodMeEgoYouBadSaid

When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.

Stephenie Meyer

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I was just such a quiet kid. I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat me up all the time, introduced me to boxing. I found boxing to be a sport that I felt safe in because I controlled what was in those four squares.

Sugar Ray Leonard

TimeBrotherMeGymDownQuiet

The first Friday of every month is what we call Numbers Day - it's the day that the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the monthly jobs report. We have a ritual at the Labor Department - at 8 A.M., we gather around a table in my office, and the commissioner of labor statistics briefs me and the department's senior leadership on the numbers.

Tom Perez

LeadershipDayMeFridayStatistics

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

Mary Daly

WorkExperienceReligiousMany

If you want to be a legend, God help you, it's so easy. You just do one thing. You can be the master of suspense, say. But if you want to be as invisible as is practical, then it's fun to do a lot of different things.

Mike Nichols

GodFunLegendHelpEasyYou

We struggle with the right words to describe the design process at Apple. But it is very much about designing and prototyping and making.

Jonathan Ive

StruggleWordsProcessDesignApple

Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.

Don Rickles

MyselfActorAlwaysCallWell

I was known as the little girl with the big voice.

Christina Aguilera

GirlVoiceLittleBigKnown

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