Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.
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BILLY BRAGG They were the true inheritors of the mantle of The Clash.
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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...
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BILLY BRAGG And just because you're gay, I won't turn you away.
If you stick around, I'm sure we can find so...
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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'.
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BILLY BRAGG My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.
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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.
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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.
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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 understand
Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman
- ...
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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!
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MELVYN BRAGG I don't want closure, I don't know what that means or why you would want it.
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MELVYN BRAGG I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I ...
RICK BRAGG I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He i...
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MELVYN BRAGG Now, perfectly ordinary people will give each other hugs. I mean, it used to be that a hug was reser...
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MELVYN BRAGG This is our showpiece this season, we're tickled.
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by books that are bo...
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GARY BRAGG Maybe a few dozen are left.
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Two: Don't kill each other.
Three: Try hard not to kill nobody e...
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RICK BRAGG Sound is a movement which is handed on from atom to atom in a gas through which the sound is passing...
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WILLIAM BRAGG, SR. The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinki...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of th...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found...
WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinkin...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them b...
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
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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
himself, but for his character, for hi...
GENERAL EDWARD STUYVESANT BRAGG Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.
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BILLY GRAHAM God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him i...
BILLY SUNDAY An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you...
BILLY WILDER Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
BILLY JOEL I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.
BILLY CORGAN I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is...
BILLY GRAHAM Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.
BILLY CONNOLLY There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
BILLY CONNOLLY Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
BILLY GRAHAM The death of Sid Caesar on Wednesday caused a chain reaction in my soon-to-be-66-year-old mind. I wa...
BILLY CRYSTAL Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audi...
BILLY CRYSTAL When I had a record deal in the '90s, that was my dream - to make an album like Barbra Streisand...
BILLY PORTER Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and bro...
BILLY GIBBONS Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical ...
BILLY COLLINS The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period.
BILLY BEANE I'm not a bro.
BILLY EICHNER France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER The best director is the one you don't see.
BILLY WILDER I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have righ...
BILLY WILDER If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
BILLY WILDER One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
BILLY WILDER They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it...
BILLY WILDER I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
BILLY WILDER Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
BILLY WILDER He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
BILLY WILDER If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too serious...
BILLY WILDER Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
BILLY GRAHAM Every human being is under construction from conception to death.
BILLY GRAHAM My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
BILLY GRAHAM What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about th...
BILLY GRAHAM Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.
BILLY GRAHAM In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. B...
BILLY JOEL I'm on all the apps: Tinder, Grindr, Bumble, Scruff. I have no shame about that.
BILLY EICHNER Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.
BILLY GRAHAM I love the community of theater. There is something about the camaraderie: People who show up eight ...
BILLY PORTER Yeah, I've done Jim Breuer's radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy...
BILLY GARDELL I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.
BILLY CONNOLLY Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for yo...
BILLY MAYS Everybody thinks the Bushes are from Texas. I've been there twice.
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BILLY SHEEHAN I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
BILLY WILDER It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.
BILLY WILDER My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Au...
BILLY WILDER Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
BILLY WILDER Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means...
BILLY WILDER What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
BILLY WILDER Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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BILLY CRYSTAL I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
BILLY SUNDAY The reason we are together is because she puts lead in my shoes and doesn't let me fly off the earth...
BILLY CRYSTAL Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself, 'This is the best I'm ever going...
BILLY CRYSTAL Gentlemen, start your egos.
BILLY CRYSTAL Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the...
BILLY CRYSTAL When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your li...
BILLY CRYSTAL I've seen worse. . . . It just so happens that your friend here is mostly dead. There's a big differ...
BILLY CRYSTAL This guy was so large, he had his own climate.
BILLY CRYSTAL Change is such hard work
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BILLY GIBBONS I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues.
BILLY COLLINS I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
BILLY JOEL If I need a cause for celebrationOr a comfort I can use to ease my mindI rely on my imaginationAnd I...
BILLY JOEL [Does Joel feel a particular resonance with any of this year's other nominees? Sure, he says -- Paul...
BILLY JOEL Shades of grey wherever I goThe more I find out the less that I knowBlack and white is how it should...
BILLY JOEL I'm still dealing with the 21-year-old me. That idealist, that purist, that young, noble, and somewh...
BILLY JOEL I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - The sinners are much more fun
BILLY JOEL Don't go trying some new fashionDon't change the color of your hair. . . .I could not love you any b...
BILLY JOEL I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
BILLY JOEL The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing ch...
BILLY JOEL The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark lik...
BILLY HERMAN If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other ...
BILLY GRAHAM Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
BILLY WILDER Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
BILLY WILDER Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never me...
BILLY WILDER I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as ...
BILLY WILDER If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
BILLY WILDER Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster ...
BILLY ECKSTINE I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and...
BILLY CORGAN I have a stack of those plastic card hotel room keys that I picked up on this latest book tour. It...
BILLY COLLINS An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles ...
BILLY WILDER Whatever it is that's bothering me - interacting with annoying guy at a restaurant, contemplatin...
BILLY CRYSTAL The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...
BILLY GRAHAM God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.
BILLY WILDER I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
BILLY WILDER Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
BILLY SUNDAY I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.
BILLY WEST The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be ...
BILLY ZANE You can't be greater than Elvis, change things as much as the Beatles, or be as original as Led Zepp...
BILLY CORGAN A lot of great music got easily dismissed because the baby boomers threw their weight around and we ...
BILLY CORGAN For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done alright.
BILLY CORGAN The band is basically modeled upon what we call like a Beatles ideal, which is that the band is abou...
BILLY CORGAN For a year now I have walked around with a secret, a secret I chose to keep. But now I want you to b...
BILLY CORGAN Well, what we usually do is in every city we got to, we hire a fifteen-year-old boy and we turn it u...
BILLY CORGAN Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.
BILLY CORGAN I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over.
BILLY CORGAN By starlight, I'll kiss you, and promise to be your one and only. I'll make you feel happy and lea...
BILLY CORGAN