Ellen Willis quote: "I was a 'Big Brother' fan. I thought they were better musicians than their detractors claimed, but more to the point, technical accomplishment was not something I cared about."

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ELLEN WILLIS

I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from bor...
ELLEN WILLIS

What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form th...
ELLEN WILLIS

You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race,...
ELLEN WILLIS

As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to th...
ELLEN WILLIS

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the s...
ELLEN WILLIS

Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature gro...
ELLEN WILLIS

By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its m...
ELLEN WILLIS

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capita...
ELLEN WILLIS

The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse o...
ELLEN WILLIS

My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperati...
ELLEN WILLIS

My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper...
ELLEN WILLIS

I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.
ELLEN WILLIS

There are two kinds of sex, classical and baroque. Classical sex is romantic, profound, serious, emo...
ELLEN WILLIS

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist...
ELLEN WILLIS

In practice, attempts to sort out good erotica from bad porn inevitably comes down to: What turns me...
ELLEN WILLIS

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper...
ELLEN WILLIS

To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.
ELLEN WILLIS

Schizophrenia demons live in my head.
WESLEY WILLIS

I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
VIC WILLIS

Don't believe those tales you hear about my being all-in. Wait until you see me in action for yo...
VIC WILLIS

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry
BRUCE WILLIS

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that yo...
BRUCE WILLIS

Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative/intuitive capabilities...
WILLIS HARMAN

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one r...
WILLIS WHITNEY

Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. . . . Be a hero -- take the time learn ...
BRUCE WILLIS

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one...
WILLIS WHITNEY

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success
WILLIS REED

A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment
WILLIS PLAYER

A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment.
WILLIS PLAYER

But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.
BRUCE WILLIS

You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.
BRUCE WILLIS

It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.
CONNIE WILLIS

On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own j...
BRUCE WILLIS

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effo...
CONNIE WILLIS

Remember that a noble logical diagram, once recorded, will never die; long after we are gone, it wil...
WILLIS POLK

I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.
BRUCE WILLIS

If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the b...
BRUCE WILLIS

That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, f...
CONNIE WILLIS

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry.
BRUCE WILLIS

On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.
BRUCE WILLIS

You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.
BRUCE WILLIS

If you catch him, just give me four seconds with Saddam Hussein.
BRUCE WILLIS

Ben Affleck (who plays A.J. Frost) and I got to actually go into the neutral buoyancy tank in actual...
BRUCE WILLIS

I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got fa...
BRUCE WILLIS

Armageddon,
BRUCE WILLIS

I like having the dough to come and go as I please.
BRUCE WILLIS

They are unstable and unpredictable. They could fall away at any time.
BRAYTON WILLIS

The challenge for us is that we are running out of tools. When we have the big flood here, we are ru...
BRAYTON WILLIS

Right now our assessment of what the damage would be at different flood stages is based on old infor...
BRAYTON WILLIS

We need to assess now what these different flood stage damages would be. And I think that's somethin...
BRAYTON WILLIS

There's always risk and uncertainty when you're dealing with Mother Nature. She's given us a couple ...
BRAYTON WILLIS

Today, anyone's identity can be easily compromised,
BILL WILLIS

The best way when they play you dirty is make sure when you tackle them, you make it a good one,
BILL WILLIS

Get your black hands off me,
BILL WILLIS

This is throwing software licensing on its ear and there won't be just one model emerging,
BILL WILLIS

I believe you'll see over the next two years or so, upward of 40 countries that will adopt the new e...
BILL WILLIS

The data storage on the chip could include all three of those your face, your fingerprint or your ir...
BILL WILLIS

There's not an awful lot I can do about it,
BILL WILLIS

Today, anyone's identity can be easily compromised, ... Today's ability to ensure a single person ha...
BILL WILLIS

These will become business decisions and not IT decisions. The CIO doesn't care who owns the softwar...
BILL WILLIS

The data storage on the chip could include all three of those ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â you...
BILL WILLIS

He doesn't want to change a winning team and I think Jones will probably survive in the side - but t...
BOB WILLIS

I guess some guys are just naturally built for comfort rather than cricket.
BOB WILLIS

You'll hear what are called flash-bangs.
BOB WILLIS

Duncan Fletcher's a loyal coach but he's got this one badly wrong,
BOB WILLIS

The industry is right on course and sailing smoothly. The only clouds we see are ASPs (average selli...
BOB WILLIS

This is pretty much what we expected based on market research and conversations with executives from...
BOB WILLIS

Things like the TV set, they took that...and some tin around the house.
BOB WILLIS

It appears that the market is just pausing for breath. All the vital signs remain good.
BOB WILLIS

Use of smoke, use of gas, use of other things are sometimes used to mask the entry of this team for ...
BOB WILLIS

There is still a fair amount of apprehension among manufacturers, especially with rising energy pric...
BOB WILLIS

To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.
WILLIS POLK

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, ...
THOMAS WILLIS

We serve children, who have been known to break into employee and agency vehicles. A gun would prese...
CARL WILLIS

The biggest thing, ... is Kevin always knows what he wants to do. Sometimes pitchers will get in tho...
CARL WILLIS

We had to get him focusing on the delivery and delivering the ball to the plate and not thinking abo...
CARL WILLIS

Tell me the youngest person you have ever seen play this game.
CARL WILLIS

He throws in the mid-90s. But we haven't seen him put up the numbers he did last night.
CARL WILLIS

In 2001, I was the pitching coach at Buffalo, and had to miss a game to come back to Minnesota for t...
CARL WILLIS

He came in after the second inning and jokingly said to me, 'Well, at least I haven't thrown many pi...
CARL WILLIS

Sparky [Anderson] told the kid to shut up.
CARL WILLIS

We've tentatively set it up, but we haven't said anything about it. But if everybody stays healthy, ...
CARL WILLIS

The thing I remember most is Game 6 of the 1991 World Series (against the Atlanta Braves). Kirby cam...
CARL WILLIS

After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and ...
BRUCE WILLIS

I got to work with Dustin Hoffman on a film called 'Billy Bathgate.' I got to work with Mery...
BRUCE WILLIS

My parents always knew that I wanted to act, so it didn't really come as a big surprise. The onl...
RUMER WILLIS

Not only do they learn character development, but they learn basic life skills. We also teach them j...
LINDA WILLIS

The sad thing is you have a mother and daughter separated.
LINDA WILLIS

At some point this family has to start healing.
LINDA WILLIS

I definitely understand not entirely fitting in. I think everyone has their own version of feeling o...
RUMER WILLIS

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science ficti...
CONNIE WILLIS

Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of frie...
BRUCE WILLIS

I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own s...
BRUCE WILLIS

If we can convince millions of calm, mature motorists not to get sucked into encounters with angry d...
DAVID WILLIS

I want to be famous and rich. . . . I am famous and rich.
WESLEY WILLIS

Robbie is probably the fastest kid on the team, and has a beautiful touch. He has played everywhere ...
JIM WILLIS

I'm doing what I want to do, and I don't care what you think you need!
WESLEY WILLIS

Put me on torture hell rides.
WESLEY WILLIS

I've been playing music for a long time. I play my music to keep busy. I play my music to keep out o...
WESLEY WILLIS

I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.
BRUCE WILLIS

I could give him business cards...multi-camoflauge background. David, woodworker, amateur computer c...
KATE WILLIS

As they ran to the barn and began the careful climb up the steep ladder, Lily realized she had accid...
KATE WILLIS

Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.
BRUCE WILLIS

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.
BRUCE WILLIS

Unfortunately, I just don't see it as being economically feasible to start over again.
WILLIS REED

They're a fun team to watch; they're a very mature, veteran team, and they've got different guys con...
WILLIS REED

We were in high grass, weren't we?
WILLIS REED

If Chuck had just left him alone, I don't think Jayson would be where he is today.
WILLIS REED

Jeff should be the one to handle it because he was the (director of player personnel).
WILLIS REED

It's unbelievable what happened in New Orleans. It's really messed guys up. Some guys won't even go ...
WILLIS REED

Our fans are getting their lives back in order, trying to do things with their homes. This has just ...
WILLIS REED

This is a story,
WILLIS REED

My kids are fanatical about 'Scooby-Doo', and I think that the creators of 'Scooby-Doo&#...
DAVE WILLIS

Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why n...
CONNIE WILLIS

It's bigger than just me, ... For the most part, it's something that I can't fathom. Obviously, I'm ...
DONTRELLE WILLIS

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.
BRUCE WILLIS

It is a special day for just the two of us, and we look forward to it all year.
JIM WILLIS

Give them credit for changing defenses. We were doing a pretty good job against their man (-to-man)....
JIM WILLIS

If we do well in this three-game stretch, we'll have a shot. We feel good about where we are and how...
JIM WILLIS

The big thing that will be lost is daily print competition, and I think competition makes all of us ...
JIM WILLIS

Today is an emotional roller coaster for us here. We are trying to stay focused, however, on putting...
JIM WILLIS

This addresses some real world needs for things that are occurring right now for returning troops an...
JIM WILLIS

I've got a lot of emotions churning around in me right now. One of the most important is to work wit...
JIM WILLIS

Dave is probably our best all-around player. We've moved him into the sweeper role this year [replac...
JIM WILLIS

The cattle started getting really hot and sticky and there were a lot of no times (when teams didn't...
JIM WILLIS

I don't want to mess up my songs. If I didn't end my songs with commercials, I wouldn't know what to...
WESLEY WILLIS

They like my music because I rock.
WESLEY WILLIS

Take me off on harmony joy rides.
WESLEY WILLIS

It was a good bunt. It made me go to the baseline. It was just well-executed.
DONTRELLE WILLIS

But if she'd come then, she would never have properly appreciated it. She'd have seen the happy crow...
CONNIE WILLIS

TO ALL THE
ambulance drivers
firewatchers
air-raid wardens
nurses
canteen w...
CONNIE WILLIS

I think he's faster than he's quick. He can chase you down. And he's naturally very strong. You may ...
KEITH WILLIS

They just couldn't block him.
KEITH WILLIS

Mentally, are you ready for that level? I don't think so. Because I've been there, done that. I know...
KEITH WILLIS

We saw some good things, but we can't be satisfied,
KEITH WILLIS

I think this year our height may be a key for us,
KEITH WILLIS

We've got some kids who can put the ball in the basket, that didn't tonight, ... We missed (too) man...
KEITH WILLIS

I'm a firm believer that games can be won or lost with the kids coming off the bench, and I think ho...
KEITH WILLIS

on paper, we'll be okay, but we can't play the season on paper.
KEITH WILLIS

They were a susitute. They were what you did when you couldn't have what you wanted.
CONNIE WILLIS

We really want to raise indigenous leaders on every continent who take this message and do what they...
AVERY WILLIS

The amazing thing is we've all come with an attitude of what we can give, not what we can get. We've...
AVERY WILLIS

Seventy percent of the world's people today can't, don't, or won't read.
AVERY WILLIS

Since Michael is not listed with a wife in 1880, I must conclude he did not leave a widow or childre...
KENT WILLIS

I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ...
CONNIE WILLIS

The most fundamental shortcoming of the GIMP, according to graphics professionals, remains its limit...
NATHAN WILLIS

It's solid gold. I'm going to put it up on my mantle.
BRUCE WILLIS

There are real bragging rights to being the tallest that go back 3,000 years. Exceeding or exalting ...
CAROL WILLIS

Latham backs out of the driveway and you can see the car swerving to the left and the mirror hits th...
CHRIS WILLIS

Clearly the skyscraper is the solution to rational living in high-density populations, because it al...
CAROL WILLIS

This decision is a victory for free speech on the Internet. The Internet provides unique opportuniti...
KENT WILLIS

We think this is a good title for our first read because it has such a broad-based appeal. And becau...
MATT WILLIS

It's a beautiful thing. We're definitely disappointed as a team [for the overall record]. But they'r...
DONTRELLE WILLIS

I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.
CONNIE WILLIS

When you've written your characters into a corner, you just hand the manuscript over to your partner...
CONNIE WILLIS

I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimillionaire. I always have to remind my...
BRUCE WILLIS

There are, I think, three countries left in the world where I can go and I'm not as well-known as I ...
BRUCE WILLIS

To go from a little, skinny kid coming in here from Indiana, weighing 215 pounds or whatever, to whe...
KEITH WILLIS

Probably with 350 meters left of the last lap he made a turn to get ahead of third and held on to it...
WILLIS WILLMETH

He's a great storyteller,
BRUCE WILLIS

1. Optimize potential. 2. Facilitate empowerment. 3. Implement visioning. 4. Strategize priorities. ...
CONNIE WILLIS

You're my sweetheart to the max. I love you like Crispy Critters.
WESLEY WILLIS

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from...
THOMAS WILLIS

Diabetes is caused by melancholy.
THOMAS WILLIS

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are ou...
THOMAS WILLIS

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effo...
CONNIE WILLIS

As far as the anxiety, I have no idea about it. I don't feel like I have any nervousness out the...
DONTRELLE WILLIS

I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).
CONNIE WILLIS

I was very excited for Melissa Fuller. She's been working really hard. I haven't put her in the 100 ...
JULIE WILLIS

I was once in their shoes, too. I remember when I was a freshman, I asked so many questions, I thoug...
PATRICK WILLIS

You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend...
CONNIE WILLIS

Unfortunately, we had a couple of losses at the beginning of the season, but the division is up for ...
WILLIS MCGAHEE

My body's good, I keep getting up so I can't complain, ... If that's what it takes to win, that's wh...
WILLIS MCGAHEE

It seems like everybody has got a little more pep in their step right now, ... Unfortunately, we had...
WILLIS MCGAHEE

I'm loving it, ... I can't complain. Let's just hope it keeps going.
WILLIS MCGAHEE

I'm pretty sure it would work pretty good. He's a great athlete and I'm sure he can do anything on e...
WILLIS MCGAHEE

We just have to go out and work together and make sure we execute plays. I'm not worried about them,...
WILLIS MCGAHEE

I'm not worried about them. I'm pretty sure we're on the same page,
WILLIS MCGAHEE

Everybody's got their own opinion, ... I'm not going to worry about it. I'm not going to correct my ...
WILLIS MCGAHEE

He came out and proved you wrong. And I told you he was going to do it.
WILLIS MCGAHEE

Come here, cat. You wouldn’t want to destroy the space-time continuum, would you? Meow. Meow.
CONNIE WILLIS

Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.
CONNIE WILLIS

[Yard was] fabulous. She had a really good game. I think we, me included, have a good combination he...
PAT WILLIS

I felt like there was something in my throat that wouldn't come out.
WILLIS MCGAHEE

They're not afraid of height at all. There is no anxiety. They both need the space and want the atte...
CAROL WILLIS

In 2006, we have a number of initiatives in our wealth management and insurance business which will ...
DAVID WILLIS

They're just bleeding money. You can see why they need additional money to survive.
DAVID WILLIS

Sprint is somewhat enlightened in supporting management over multiple carrier networks. The manageme...
DAVID WILLIS

The health department is looking primarily for bacteriological contamination. Oil and gas, you can s...
DAVID WILLIS

It takes two to tangle, and if you can convince one of those two people to back off and let the othe...
DAVID WILLIS

It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner ...
CONNIE WILLIS

It's baseball. That's the beauty of it, playing the games. It's a double-edged sword. Anything can h...
DONTRELLE WILLIS

That's B.S. We lost. I don't pat myself on the back for that stuff. I don't need to make myself any ...
DONTRELLE WILLIS

Individual statistics are fine and dandy, but it's lonely out there, ... You want to share with the ...
DONTRELLE WILLIS

It's big for our team because it gives them an extra day. We're definitely going to need them. I kno...
DONTRELLE WILLIS

Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions,
DONTRELLE WILLIS

We're professionals, we'll come back, ... We don't have enough time [to worry]. Nobody is going to f...
DONTRELLE WILLIS

Participation at CARTS should be an indicator of the level of industry confidence. We expect that en...
BOB WILLIS

I was a 'Big Brother' fan. I thought they were better musicians than their detractors claimed, but more to the point, technical accomplishment was not something I cared about.

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I was a 'Big Brother' fan. I thought they were better musicians than their detractors claimed, but more to the point, technical accomplishment was not something I cared about.

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