Billy Joel Quotes
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Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
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Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
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My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.
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I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.
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I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
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Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.
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My spirit is as strong as ever. I'm still fighting to make the world a safer place, and you can, too.
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I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
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As far as people whose style interests me, I'd say Grace Kelly, Gwen, Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham, and that nanny called Fran.
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This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
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When I hear a great new record, especially when it's by someone that I respect and admire, then a part of me is like, Why didn't I think of that? Why didn't I write that record? It makes you sick, but in a way it can be a great thing. It makes you want to go back to the lab and start writing again. Maybe it will inspire you to try a little harder.
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A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit.... A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states.
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It should be easy for a man who's strong to say he's sorry or admit when he's wrong.