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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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
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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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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.
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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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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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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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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I had the perm because I wanted wash-and-wear hair. I didn't want to be bothered with it.
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I think there's always been progressive R&B music.
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Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It’s not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 9/11, but, if you think about what caused 9/11, it is the rise of ideologies of hatred that lead people to drive airplanes into buildings in New York.
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My thing about creating things is that it has to do two purposes: It has to serve me creatively but also has to serve the people.
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The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
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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.
