Billy Joel Quotes
If I'm crazy then it's true That it's all because of you And you wouldn't want me any other way.
Quotes to Explore
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.
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We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
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If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
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There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
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I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.
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It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
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I decide intuitively what I want to do. When directors like Imtiaz Ali, Ayan Mukerji, Anurag Basu and Anurag Kashyap, who have stories to tell, come to me, why would I not be a part of it?
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We want laws to be applied predictably.
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As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in a room writing a song.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.
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One day, I was at my grandmother's house, and I found diaries that she kept as a young girl. I opened one to a page that had flowers glued inside. In her childish handwriting, my grandmother wrote, 'Pap died today. I am very sad.' The fact that this was true and that I could see the withered flowers made a huge impression on me.
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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.
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The Muslim Brotherhood and the Salifist parties are a real force in the Egyptian society.
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God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated on without taking Him into account. We get into circumstances which were not chosen by God, and suddenly we find we have been calculating without God; He has not entered in as a living factor. The one thing that keeps us from the possibility of worrying is bringing God in as the greatest factor in all our calculations.
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I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.
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You can't really compare people. That's one of the biggest lessons I've learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are.
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If I'm crazy then it's true That it's all because of you And you wouldn't want me any other way.
