Billy Joel Quotes
I don't belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that's what's kept me grounded because I know it's not right.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
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I like old people falling over, that's what makes me laugh.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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Workday is constantly looking into the future and, you know, building applications that stay modern and relevant.
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I don't belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that's what's kept me grounded because I know it's not right.
