Billy Joel Quotes
In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'
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I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.
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You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.
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I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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When writing fantastical literature, your biggest problem is getting your audience to believe the fantastical elements of your story.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.
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What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more.
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In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
