Billy Joel Quotes
Call you up in the middle of the night. It's awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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I'm definitely a hair down girl. I'm a fan of the natural, earthy look.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.
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More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.
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If you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside. Those are new sheets.
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Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity.
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It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.
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Call you up in the middle of the night. It's awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
