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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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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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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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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Sometimes you will think you can't take it another day. But if you hang in there, one step at a time, you will be able to accomplish more than you ever imagine.
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Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
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The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.
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Small business is America's engine of job creation.
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Before 'Homeland,' I had £80 in the bank and no idea what I was going to do. I seriously considered giving it all up and getting a job as a lorry driver.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
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There are girls who find the giant beard 'gross' and 'creepy.' I know because they tell me.
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The ancient Egyptians were Negroes. The moral fruit of their civilization is to be counted among the assets of the Black world.
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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.
