I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.


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When 'Blue Collar TV' was on the 'WB,' we were their second-highest rated show, but ...
BILL ENGVALL
A good hitting instructor is able to mold his teaching to the individual. If a guy stands on his hea...
BILL ROBINSON
Jason McDermott's political career, however bogus, appears to have had an early and promising st...
BILL DEDMAN
All my memories of being in Las Vegas with Bobby were great. Frank Sinatra brought us to the Sands H...
BILL MEDLEY
No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.
BILL WALTON
Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of ...
BILL NYE
I think when Kevin Nash put himself on the booking committee and then gave me my first loss, that wa...
BILL GOLDBERG
People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwa...
BILL IRWIN
Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysi...
BILL GROSS
I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and...
BILL PULLMAN
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swing...
BILL VAUGHAN
It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own wa...
BILL VAUGHAN
Bonds as an asset class will always be needed, and not just by insurance companies and pension funds...
BILL GROSS
Whether or not you write well, write bravely
BILL STOUT
There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your life...
BILL JANKLOW
I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorit...
BILL WALTON
We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources an...
MAX BILL
I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I ...
BILL MCCARTNEY
I consider myself a law-abiding person. But I'm exhausted. I don't know where to put the bot...
BILL O'REILLY
We need to enact a strong standard that will stop a terrorist or illegal alien from getting a driver...
BILL SHUSTER
The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
BILL WILSON
With breast cancer, it's all about detection. You have to educate young women and encourage them...
BILL RANCIC
One of the things we've always tried to do is help others with our story. Whether it's with ...
BILL RANCIC
Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.
BILL BRYSON
You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within...
BILL BRYSON
The real significance of Magellan's voyage was not that it was the first to circumnavigate the plane...
BILL BRYSON
What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die of course. Literally shit...
BILL BRYSON