Billy Corgan Quotes

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.

Billy Corgan

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PersonalityPeopleMeThinkWayOut

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

Jesse Jackson

LifeMysteriousDimensions

My techniques are basics, but my willingness to be in the pocket and see things is very high level.

Robbie Lawler

BasicsSeeHighThingsLevelPocket

I think that, to a lot of people, they don't like my brand of whatever I do. And I think that people - the ones that like me, at least - see me as their brother or their older uncle or their friend or their next door neighbour. I am the quintessential boy next door; I feel that way.

Robbie Williams

FriendI AmBrotherPeopleMeDoor

Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

Mary Karr

ChildhoodPeopleMeControlFeet

Weightlessness was unbelievable. It's physical euphoria: Nothing about you has any weight. You don't realize that you are weighed down all the time by yourself, and your organs, and your head. Your arms weigh down your shoulders. In space simulation, you get to fly like Superman! You're hanging in the air! It's the coolest thing.

Mary Roach

TimeYourselfSpaceFlyYouDown

Like the American soldiers who went before them, they are putting their lives on the line to protect ours.

Doc Hastings

AmericanProtectSoldiersLineLike

We have a certain bond that we don't have with anyone else on the planet. You just have that bond, that journey when you are in a band together.

Dolores O'Riordan

JourneyTogetherBondYouBandJust

I tend to build bulk and muscle easily, and running seems to make sure I stay kind of stringy, if that makes sense.

Apolo Ohno

KindBuildMuscleStaySenseSure

Clinton appears to be the sole holdout in the Obama administration in understanding the catastrophe caused by its foreign policy in Libya.

Pete Hoekstra

UnderstandingPolicyForeign Policy

Sometimes I think about, 'What if I'm not the person everyone idealizes me to be? Maybe I'm just a regular old Joe. What if I can't live up to all these expectations? Maybe I'm just not who they think I am or who they want me to be.

Selah Louise Marley

LiveI AmMeExpectationsThinkOld

I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'

Serena Williams

TimeMeBlackLongYouLong Time

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

Thomas Piketty

TaxProgressivePropertyGlobal

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