Billy Joel Quotes
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I've actually changed my view of Los Angeles. When I was younger, I hated it, because I thought it was fake and superficial. As I've gotten older, I've found that to be absolutely true, but I don't care.
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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
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My grandfather started a school for the underprivileged in Chandigarh, and that is why we moved from Himachal to Chandigarh. It was a small school, where even I would teach while in school.
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I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.
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I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!
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If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
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I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
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I know people talk about poverty and other factors, but there is very little I can do to ensure that a child has a stable two-parent home. But what if we can give them a shot in the classroom with a stable, high-standards environment?
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.
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I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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I always like teaser trailers because they don't give too much away, you know? They give just a flavor of what the thing is.
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I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.
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But suicides have a special language.Like carpenters they want to know which tools.They never ask why build.
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I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.
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If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].
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Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
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I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
