Billy Joel Quotes
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
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I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
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I talk to the universe all the time.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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Pretty much my whole life, I've been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.
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Reality shows give a great platform to young singers, but kids shouldn't be exposed to showbiz at a very young age.
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You know what offends me? Offended people. In a country with guaranteed rights to freedom of religion, its citizens are constantly trying to make faith in public spheres illegal, I am offended by that contradiction and want to talk about it as a comic.
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I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
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It feels great to have a #1 album.
