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If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family.

Billy Corgan

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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
Guitarist
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Billy Burke
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Johnny Goat
William Patrick Corgan
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