Billy Joel Quotes

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

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• Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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  • World
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• I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Morning

• Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.

  

  Nas
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Appreciate

• I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Health
  • Question
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• I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

  

  Ira Glass
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• Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Internet
  • Television

• To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Live
  • Success
  • Win

• Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Why
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• I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Girl
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  • Train

• There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Experience
  • You
  • Control

• I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Me
  • Connection
  • Kid

• I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Now
  • Now And Then
  • Bath

• I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Commitment

• Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Going
  • Alien
  • Hospital

• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Happiness
  • Cause
  • Others

• Item numbers are not my cup of tea.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Tea
  • Numbers
  • Cup

• I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Up
  • Growing
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• There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Good
  • Father

• I look upon meself as... You take a band that's made up of arms, legs, bodies... I happen to be the piece that talks. And does all that area of it, you know? I'm also very easy to recognize; the darkie in the middle jumping around with the guitar, you know. Dat boy's got rhydm!!!

  

  Phil Lynott Thin Lizzy
  • Up
  • Band
  • Boy

• Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting.

  

  Kristin Davis
  • Family
  • Blonde

• The burden of being a constant symbol, of having to live up to a symbol of advancement, of progress, of being perfect in some way and always representing the destiny of an entire people - that is supposed to be invincibility. That's enormous.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• It would be a very nice way to commute, to be able to bike through the upper part of the George Washington Parkway.

  

  Dolley Madison
  • Nice
  • Bike
  • Commute

• I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

  

  Billy Joel
  • People
  • Boy
  • Drinking