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 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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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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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.
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I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.
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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.
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Life is a series of adventures just waiting to be enjoyed.
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I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the radio I can actually - I can understand what's happening in the interview and can make a connection in a way that makes sense.
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Believe it or not, I'm as much a fan of a supper shortcut as the next person.
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With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
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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.
