- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boy Quotes
From playground dreams to fatherly reflection.
This collection gathers quotes touching on boyhood in its many forms, from primary-school friendships and boy scout days to a boy's private ambition to become something larger than himself. See also our Boyhood quotes for more on early years.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love what I do and the music I make and the bands I've done, especially Fall Out Boy. I also love what I love, and I don't care if other people like it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my fiction, there's a lot that's borrowed from music. It's never like I'm taking a lyric, but more the mood of a particular song. 'The Boy Detective Fails' was like listening to 'Eleanor Rigby' by The Beatles, this very melancholy-but-poppy song.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt really lucky that 'Hairstyles Of The Damned' and 'The Boy Detective Fails' were both bestsellers, and I thought that donating the money from 'Demons' was a good way to respond to that. My favorite artists are the ones that are willing to experiment, even if it means a smaller audience.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can't take the Midwest out of the boy.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'd have to use my left.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to have twins - a girl and a boy - but who knows if that would happen. It would be my ideal situation. Wham, bam, be done with it.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer to be gender fluid or non-gendered and I dress in drag almost every day of my life even if I'm not in my full Jinkx Monsoon persona - I'm the kind of person who does not dress like my assigned gender and I wear makeup every day and sometimes wear wigs as a boy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a lot of honesty in that track. 'Smalltown Boy' was about leaving Glasgow but it was also about the people I had come to meet on my journey, especially when I was squatting in London.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020