Billy Corgan Quotes

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

Billy Corgan

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LifeDeathStoryAmericanYouKnow

I have a theatrical temperament. I'm not interested in the middle road - maybe because everyone's on it. Rationality, reasonableness bewilder me.

Joan Didion

MeRoadEveryoneBecauseMiddle

I started surfing when I was working on 'The Hunger Games,' out on the north shore of Oahu, so about four years ago. I used to skateboard as a kid, kind of religiously, until I broke my leg riding in a pool when I was about 14 and I couldn't play football that fall.

Jeffrey Wright

FootballFallPoolPlayKindGames

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.

Michael Ignatieff

PoliticsPoliticalVillageAuthority

Reading books might itself be a bit weird, but obviously okay, since books were part of school, and doing well in school was clearly a good thing. But comics were more like candy, just flashy wrappers without any nourishment. Cheap thrills.

Michael Dirda

GoodSchoolReadingWeirdDoing

Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.

Lisa Scottoline

LifeYourselfHappyBe HappyYou

I've seen small businesses turn into terrible midsize or big ones because they let their desire to achieve some arbitrary metric get the best of them. Whatever is compromised as a result doesn't matter anymore, as long as the company is growing.

Jason Fried

BestSmallLongResultAchieveTurn

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

Joni Mitchell

LieLostNationAbilityOutMakes

My favorite memory is my five years with the Nuggets. From my first day to my last day is a great memory. There wasn't a year that I was a Nugget that I didn't think we succeeded.

Dikembe Mutombo

GreatDayMemoryThinkYearFirst

I play Dr. Karen Boyer in 'Spies Like Us.' She's strong, intelligent and dedicated and just happens to be beautiful.

Donna Dixon

BeautifulStrongPlayIntelligentUs

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

Pope Francis

ChangeGodVirtueResponsibleThrift

I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged; too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them.

Susan Orlean

TruthMeTruth IsWishYouChoose

I apply the three gag rule, which is if I can read a script without gagging more than three times, then maybe I can say yes to this job.

Peter Riegert

JobI CanThreeSayMoreWithout

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