Billy Bragg
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DAISY BERKOWITZ BRUCE WILLIS There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They're ble... DAVID GRANN I love to go out there and look at those bricks and imagine the stories behind them. There are brick... CAMILLE RAMSEY Children will be children, and they're inquisitive. If teenagers want to know what's out the... KEELEY HAWES We try to get the parent to step back from their emotions and help them figure out the outcome they ... IVOR WEINER The white men in the East are like birds. They are hatching out their eggs every year, and there is ... GEORGE CROOK I always thought there were some people who were just destined to be disengaged in their jobs becaus... TOM RATH ROB PORTMAN His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the plea... ROY L. PICKERING JR. But doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way? DAVID SHUSTER There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me. NATHAN LANE ULYSSES S. GRANT There, they learn about organizing their time and what has to be done with all their jobs. A lot of ... RITA SOWDEN ADAM GRANT DANIEL GREENBERG HOWIE MANDEL Our customers are excited about this line and enjoy trying them when they come into our stores. They... CHERYL BERCZYK Some people say I'm unique, that there aren't other people with schizophrenia like me. Well,... ELYN SAKS ED SMITH PHIL MCGRAW I know people who have, until recently, lived with dirt floors. There are people who live way back o... DANIEL WOODRELL RICHARD GERE You shine the light and you let them come out with their own words and they'll be exposed for what t... KAREN AROESTY DONALD TRUMP CHANTAL KREVIAZUK DANIEL BARENBOIM GEORGE MICHAEL Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to b... B. D. WONG SUSAN CAIN NYLE DIMARCO ADAM MCKAY I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are s... CHARLES KING Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet. SEBASTIAN BACH I try and make them feel comfortable, then you watch their personality come out. JENNIFER JENNINGS I love playing football. So I go out to play football, and I don't really feel pressure. Of cour... MESUT OZIL We had them backed up on their own 1 and let them out. We needed to come up with some third-down sto... JOE LOBENDAHN I can't get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin... Sometimes you see pe... KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS MOHSIN HAMID I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - wr... CARLY CRAIG It's important to the students and it helps build relationships between teachers and students outsid... CAITLIN SULLIVAN STEVE MARTIN It's a good thing to see. You want to be cautious about where they are, not push too hard, let them ... JIM TRACY HOWARD GARDNER TOM STOPPARD Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with... BILLY ECKSTINE GRACE GEALEY ANNETTE BENING I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty... MICHAEL ARNDT At the time I was writing 'Weedflower,' my friend Naomi Hirahara was writing a book about Ja... CYNTHIA KADOHATA WENDY COPE TIM CAHILL THEOPHILUS LONDON A lot of writers dwell on their relationships with their mothers, but only a few are worth reading. KATHRYN HARRISON As far as innovation goes, I can tell you that Korean students are reluctant to step out of line. If... DAN SHECHTMAN Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to ta... M.R. JAMES SYLVIA PLATH MARK HADDON JEFFREY KLUGER Everybody's a train wreck in their own very special way. But there's something wildly freein... MELISSA MCCARTHY MARK BARROWCLIFFE I think there are people out there that want to live downtown and own their own dwelling. It is the ... ANNE FURR There seem to be some irregularities there. So they decided they wanted to come and look at them. Th... ARCHIE SEALE CARL LEWIS Exceptional employees don't possess God-given personality traits; they rely on simple, everyday ... TRAVIS BRADBERRY Last year we had so many people coming in and out they didn't bother to sew their names on the b... ANDY VAN SLYKE There is no better way to manage than by walking around. Autocracy doesn't work. Talk to people ... MAURICE FLANAGAN Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy. F. MULDER Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it? KENT CONRAD ANDREW WILES CARLY SCHROEDER GORE VIDAL
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To have accountability you must get out and vote! BILLY BRAGG A song is like a newspaper. It's capable of carrying a number of different messages. Some of them ar... BILLY BRAGG A part of my job is to bring the news from elsewhere to here and to take back some news from here. .... BILLY BRAGG All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations. BILLY BRAGG Protest music was prematurely declared to be unfashionable, BILLY BRAGG Mermaid Avenue Vol. II, BILLY BRAGG The thing about Strummer was he walked it like he talked it, ... He didn't cop out. He didn't show o... BILLY BRAGG And since September 11 and the war with Iraq, I think people are more attuned to music that's got so... BILLY BRAGG They were the true inheritors of the mantle of The Clash. BILLY BRAGG Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had. BILLY BRAGG That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians... BILLY BRAGG It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, bu... BILLY BRAGG I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they sho... BILLY BRAGG Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today. BILLY BRAGG You can only make political music if you have a context. . . . You cannot make political music in a ... BILLY BRAGG And just because you're gay, I won't turn you away.BILLY BRAGG I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportun... BILLY BRAGG The revolution is just a T-shirt away.Waiting for the Great Leap Forward BILLY BRAGG Welcome to what we're calling 'I'll Be Your Bobby Tonight'. BILLY BRAGG Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage tro... BILLY BRAGG We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it. BILLY BRAGG That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world.... BILLY BRAGG My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing. BILLY BRAGG My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter. BILLY BRAGG Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go ... BILLY BRAGG In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved... BILLY BRAGG I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters fro... BILLY BRAGG I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at al... BILLY BRAGG I try and write honestly about what I see around me now. BILLY BRAGG I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come... BILLY BRAGG I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of ... BILLY BRAGG By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which ... BILLY BRAGG But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wou... BILLY BRAGG So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs t... BILLY BRAGG I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash. BILLY BRAGG All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real ... BILLY BRAGG An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone. BILLY BRAGG The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a jo... BILLY BRAGG If no one seems to understandBILLY BRAGG The success of the arts has come through a mix of public subsidy, substantial private support, and g... MELVYN BRAGG In music, the Specials brought a city, Coventry, bombed out for a second time and riven with racism,... MELVYN BRAGG I don't go around thinking I'm attractive or not attractive. It has never occurred to me. Pe... MELVYN BRAGG RICK BRAGG The theatre always seems to be in trouble but always thriving. It's deeply comical to me that we... MELVYN BRAGG Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you! MELVYN BRAGG We listened to a lot of drama, adaptations of books, comedy. There was a real love of music expresse... MELVYN BRAGG I don't want closure, I don't know what that means or why you would want it. MELVYN BRAGG The class barricades have been stormed by the forces of a broad culture, which is made up of cluster... MELVYN BRAGG RICK BRAGG I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He i... MELVYN BRAGG I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disrega... MELVYN BRAGG Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District. MELVYN BRAGG It is very difficult for middle-aged, institutionalised males who have done so well out of subsidy -... MELVYN BRAGG I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philh... MELVYN BRAGG We got a copy of the 'New Statesman' at my grammar school in Wigton, Cumbria, in the 1950s. ... MELVYN BRAGG Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to liste... MELVYN BRAGG Now, perfectly ordinary people will give each other hugs. I mean, it used to be that a hug was reser... MELVYN BRAGG In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it. MELVYN BRAGG It is impossible to get enough books, don't you find? But where are we without them? Just words on t... MELVYN BRAGG Yet it seemed to Bega that if she could continue to read, which had come so easily to her... then th... MELVYNN BRAGG As the 20th century unspooled, a cultural warming melted down many frozen class characteristics. MELVYN BRAGG Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do,... MELVYN BRAGG Magna Carta has 63 clauses in abbreviated Latin. Two of them that are still on the statute book, num... MELVYN BRAGG Magna Carta has become totemic. It is in the comedy of Tony Hancock, in the poetry of Kipling, never... MELVYN BRAGG I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even ... MELVYN BRAGG RICK BRAGG Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow. MELVYN BRAGG I don't get nervous when I'm interviewing someone on film - it can be cut, and we can do it ... MELVYN BRAGG This is our showpiece this season, we're tickled. GARY BRAGG Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an... MELVYN BRAGG I'm a class mongrel. MELVYN BRAGG RICK BRAGG The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other... MELVYN BRAGG RICK BRAGG RICK BRAGG More people go to Tate Modern than watch the Arsenal. MELVYN BRAGG I have written favourably in support of subsidy for the arts since the 1960s, and I continue to beli... MELVYN BRAGG The BBC does a sterling job, but I'd like to see it do more. ITV does four arts programmes a yea... MELVYN BRAGG A lot of people broke their arms on these cranks; it's similar to what was used on early cars. GARY BRAGG Maybe a few dozen are left. GARY BRAGG This is Cat history. Compared to the feeding and caring of horses, this was wonderful. GARY BRAGG RICK BRAGG RICK BRAGG RICK BRAGG RICK BRAGG Sound is a movement which is handed on from atom to atom in a gas through which the sound is passing... WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinkin... WILLIAM BRAGG, SR. SIR WILLIAM BRAGG SIR WILLIAM BRAGG The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found... WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG SIR WILLIAM BRAGG SIR WILLIAM BRAGG God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them b... WILLIAM BRAGG SR. When a liquid boils, the temperature has been raised to such a pitch that the evaporating molecules ... WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand time... WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG I've often been impressed with a girl Who could sing for her supper - and breakfast as well WILLIAM BRAGG SR. The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinkin... WILLIAM BRAGG SR. [Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their poi... WILLIAM LAWRENCE BRAGG I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contac... WILLIAM LAWRENCE BRAGG They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for
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Judgment refers to a sound mind. When there is no sound mind in a society, people in that society do... 
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There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice. 
Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step ... 
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The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of th... 
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