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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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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It's my approach as a filmmaker always to go in, not with a thesis or preconceived notion, but with curiosity and questions and inquiry. So in some way, I'm always surprised. I'm always finding paths of engagement.
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Inflation is an increase in the quantity of money without a corresponding increase in the demand for money, i.e., for cash holdings.
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They want to hurry things quicker than the Almighty means them to go. I don't altogether blame them either, for I'm mortally impatient myself. But it s no good thinking that saying a thing should be so will make it so. We're not the Creator of this universe. You've got to judge results according to your instruments.
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Every once in a while, I want to get up and cook.
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Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.
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The Olympics must be my curse or something.
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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.
