Billy Joel Quotes
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
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If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
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I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.
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When someone turns to me and addresses me as 'our Queen', that word means a lot to me because it makes me feel that they know my life is theirs. My joy is their joy. My worries are their worries. If the word 'queen' means something to me, 'our queen' means everything to me.
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You need a balance in life. You just cannot be all the time on an adrenalin peak. You need to recharge.
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This has always been my life and no one else's, and that's how it's always been since the day I came in it.
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What I love about elk hunting is its similarities to turkey hunting. When you call to a bull elk, and it comes in ripping things apart and sounding like a herd of buffalo coming at you, it's exciting!
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Do you know what the good side of crack is? If you're up at the right hour, you can get a VCR for $1.50. You can furnish your whole house for $10.95.
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Take risks. Take chances. Don't be afraid. You gotta go into life brave.
