You can experience a download, but you can’t download an experience.
BILLY BRAGGIf we accuse Trump of being a liar, he won’t just say ‘I never said that’ or just ignore it and go on to the next thing.
More Billy Bragg Quotes
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You can have an argument with someone who’s a sceptic. When I say ‘cynic’, I mean someone who has given up, and they want you to give up too, so it makes them feel better about themselves.
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If we think we’re a nation with great ideas, and a nation that wants to make the world a better place, let’s commit ourselves and involve ourselves with our European partners.
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You have to recognise your responsibility to your community for your actions. Liberty doesn’t mean that you are not held accountable.
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All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.
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Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.
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Don’t saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.
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I’d like to think that in a generation or two we’ll have politicians whose life experience reflects that of the people who are voting for them.
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Just because you’re gay, I won’t turn you away. If you stick around, I’m sure we can find some common ground.
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A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.
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The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you’re an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.
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You have to believe that if the majority of people had their way, they would make a society that would be fair for everyone. If you don’t believe that, and if you think that the glass is always half empty, then you’re never going to have that sensibility.
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We’ve heard so much about the American dream: well, Trump is the American nightmare made flesh.
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Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.
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Never trust anyone who has no doubts. And I’m not talking about scepticism either: scepticism can be a healthy thing.
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I’ve had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.
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