Billy Idol Quotes

My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his business, which was selling powertools, and I was looking for a way out from under his heel. I was like, 'Where's the fun? Where's the glamour?'

Billy Idol

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 30, 1955

Topics

LearningBusinessFunLookingRock

The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.

Johannes Stark

SingleWithoutAtomsException

I can't say I'd like to concentrate on one particular composer. I'm looking forward to doing a variety.

Andris Nelsons

Looking ForwardLookingForwardDoing

I created 'Dinner: Impossible' with a guy named Bryan O'Reilly and I shot the pilot as a 30 minute show and we sold it.

Robert Irvine

DinnerImpossiblePilotGuyShow

That's the great thing about being an actor, you know, you can just jump to different jobs.

Matt Dillon

GreatYouJumpKnowActorDifferent

I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.

Angus Deaton

LifeTimeMoneyPeopleWorryEnough

You get way better from playing to the passing public. You learn how to entertain. But it took me a good three years out on the promenade to figure that out. You also learn what makes them stop dead in their tracks and what doesn't.

Andy Grammer

GoodMeBetterLearnYouStop

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

Steve Jobs

GreatBestPeopleResearchThinkGo

I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.

Lisa Gardner

HomeCharacterRelationshipDaySoup

I always loved clothes. I grew up in a blue-collar family, but I loved old movies and seeing all those dashing leading men.

Joseph Abboud

FamilyMenLovedClothesSeeingOld

We want to give our audiences flexibility in the way they're commercially engaged in the content.

Bobby Kotick

WantWayContentFlexibilityGive

I think when you write something as standup material, it forces you to think about how you're gonna tell that story in one way, and then, when you get the opportunity to shoot it, you almost have to reframe how you go about it and rethink the entire process.

Wyatt Cenac

OpportunityStoryThinkProcessYou

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

William Godwin

PowerBestThinkOwnWellCannot

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