Billy Joel Quotes
Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?
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Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.
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At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.
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I grew up listening to Nirvana and then went through some bad '90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.
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I don't believe you on the 'Jimmy' story. No, I don't, and I'm going to prove it if it's the last thing I do.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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The back hair doesn't get all that long; it's just really thick. So if I don't keep it shaved once a week, it's a problem, and it could take two hours. And my wife's got to do it, so it's her problem. I told her we just need to buy a laser hair removal machine because it would take three or four years and probably 50 sessions to get rid of it.
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When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that.
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Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.
