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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Reality is what you can count on.
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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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I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.
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We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.
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I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your hands on very easily. Things that are kind of nebulous and they feel like they're not completely formed. You have to feel your way through that.
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Now, with Annie gone, I'm looking for a new dog. I have a lot of duck hunting planned, and I can't imagine doing it without a dog. I'm 84, so I won't get a puppy.
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Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.
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What will it take till you believe in me The way that I believe in you.
