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Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.

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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
Guitarist
Musician
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Billy Burke
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Johnny Goat
William Patrick Corgan
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People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.
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I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.
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I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.
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Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing.
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At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.
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Every year that goes by, I lose that much more motivation to play rock.
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As long as you have faith, you're willing to try to take another chance. God wants you to amble toward the right spot on the horizon. The idea is that you're willing to get up and keep moving toward that light.
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In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.
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Beware of those angels with their wings glued on.
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I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.
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My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.
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Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.
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As a healthy person, my breakfasts are very bland and boring. Think kind of a white pasty gruel. Or there can be an occasional banana over the top.
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People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
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It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.
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We are the most beloved and hated band in the world.
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I was part of a generation that changed the world - and it was taken over by poseurs.
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I'm from a lower middle class background all my family were immigrants.
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