Billy Joel Quotes

I don't know if people are going to remember some of these songs we're going to do tonight. Hell, I don't know if we're going to remember some of these.

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• Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
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• I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
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• There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.

  

  Ian Anderson
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• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• In the streets, they're very nice. On Twitter, there are people who love to hate me. Sometimes people get mean. I tend to answer like, 'Careful now, know who you're dealing with...' They're like, 'I'm sorry! Don't send the Lord of Light after me!' It's fun to play with that.

  

  Carice van Houten
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• I have a phone obsession. It's really hard on set sometimes because I'll be checking Instagram, and then I have to remember, 'Oh, crap, I have to shoot a scene or rehearse.' Every now and then, I have to turn it off and live my life.

  

  Zendaya
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• Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.

  

  Edmund Morgan
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• The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.

  

  Jack Keane
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• You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

  

  Walter Hill
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• People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

  

  Dan Quayle
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• My favorite role is mommy. I know that sounds cheesy to people who don't have kids, or there are even some moms who think it's cheesy. It's a role you can't prepare for; it's a role you don't get paid to do, but it is the most rewarding role, and to me, it's been the most fulfilling.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
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• There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.

  

  Vince Gilligan
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• Even when I was modelling, I never had a mom sitting on my head and a bunch of people waiting on me. I've always been independent. I'll do my thing and go.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
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• I do think faith is important when it introduces positivity into your life and you see it with love in your heart because there's so many people who unfortunately use faith for detrimental things or to justify detrimental actions.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
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• Latinos finally have a genre of music that represents them, and they're supporting reggaeton in such huge numbers that people can't help but notice there's a revolution going on.

  

  Fat Joe
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• Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
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• I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

  

  Oliver Stone
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• I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I could have? No. But I was always ambivalent about Hollywood and what I wanted. And ambivalence in our business is no good for success.

  

  Valeria Golino
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• It's better for candidates to suggest ideas that are responsible, not ones that are incapable of being executed. People are influenced by what their leaders tell them. And bringing the level of rhetoric down brings the temperature down.

  

  Jeh Johnson
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• When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

  

  Jackie Robinson
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• The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.

  

  Nate Silver
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• I take my inspiration for the song writing from little experiences, not even if I've experienced them myself but say if something has made me sad, I will use that emotion. I just use everyday life and write about it.

  

  Pixie Lott
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• Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event is marked in canon. You're supposed to believe that these weepy star boys of now are the same gung-ho super teens fighting space monsters in the '60s, and they've only aged perhaps five years.

  

  John Hodgman
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  • Space

• I don't know if people are going to remember some of these songs we're going to do tonight. Hell, I don't know if we're going to remember some of these.

  

  Billy Joel
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