Billy Joel Quotes
When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
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But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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Money isn't everything. Do you get married because of money? Do you have kids because of money?
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In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.
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I thought it was a very cute song. I just picked them out because I liked them. I wasn't trying to make any statements.
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I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.
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When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
