"I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the poet and the priest, the demagogue and the populist. Pen to paper, Iâ€™ve put it all down, every bit from the heart. Iâ€™m going out on a limb here, so watch my back."

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Source : "Billy Idol: The Story of My Drug-Fueled Recording of 'Dancing with Myself'" by Billy Idol, www.esquire.com. October 3, 2014.

Billy Idol

#Sex Quotes #Heart Quotes #Dark Quotes

“You disappoint yourself more often by not doing things because of cowardice and temerity than you ever did by doing things that turn out to be wrong.”
“People come up with resolutions that donâ€™t reflect what matters most to them, and that makes them almost guaranteed to fail.”
“If you consider, for example, that democracy is much like a religion then 9/11 is akin to finding the body of God.”

Source : "Some Recent RAW Stories". Comment #40, www.bradblog.com. July 8, 2005.
“To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man -- these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity. History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own.”
“she's wondering how many women are walking around this world feeling the tingling of their amputated wings remembering what it was to fly to sing”
“My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter.”
“In poetry I can let the language go, allow an image that seems out of place to enter and see what happens, always listening to the music that's being created, just like the world around us, never predictable, always shifting and intertwining, reflecting and echoing itself.”

Source : "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.
“I loved Ian in the now, the way he looked at me, how he made my stomach swim, how he held my hair when I was puking my guts up after eating a bad enchilada. Thatâ€™s love.”

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