Billy Joel Quotes
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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I believe in giving back.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.
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Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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Business is tough; you need tough guys.
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I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.
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Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
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You have good days and bad days.
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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
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I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.
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I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.
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If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.
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No purchase is so urgent, no bargain so rare, that you don't have time to research it thoroughly, despite what they might have you believe. This applies, in particular, to infomercials that urge you to 'Call now, while supplies last,' or 'Call in the next 10 minutes for a free gift.'
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Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.
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If a company is not a monopoly, then the law assumes market competition can restrain the company's actions. No problem. If a monopoly exists, but the monopoly does not engage in acts designed to destroy competition, then we can assume that it earned and is keeping its monopoly the pro-consumer way: by out-innovating its competitors.
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I grew up in a Navy family, and like most service families, we traveled a lot and moved a lot. I grew up on both coasts and in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in Rockville, Maryland, and have had a great time doing it.
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Christ did not come to straighten out the natural, but to "CROSS" it out.
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What will it take till you believe in me The way that I believe in you.
