Billy Joel Quotes

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• To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Important
  • Me
  • Hair

• I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Thoughts
  • Presence
  • Studying

• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Black
  • Individual
  • White

• For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Character
  • Season
  • Nervous

• Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

  

  Val Guest
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Bad

• What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Art
  • Tradition
  • Fact

• You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Done
  • Know
  • Bread

• I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • I Can
  • Socialism
  • Communism

• I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Believe
  • Woman
  • Murder

• I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • People
  • Strong
  • Funny

• I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Job
  • Comedy
  • Forever

• 2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Great
  • Me
  • Roles

• I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Work
  • Women
  • Job

• If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Important
  • Business
  • News

• I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.

  

  Yuna
  • Cool
  • Singing
  • Old

• A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Woman

• Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Good
  • Me
  • Keep

• I love my camera crews on all my jobs. It's the half of the job that the audience never gets to see. They're integral. They're as much a part of making a movie or television show as I am.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Love
  • Audience
  • See

• It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • Good
  • Family
  • Health

• I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Remember
  • Learning
  • Fool

• The energy you give off is the energy you receive. I really think that, so I'm always myself - jumping, dancing, singing around, trying to cheer everybody up.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Energy

• The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.

  

  Bill Shuster
  • Everyday

• Don't wait for answers, just take your chances. Don't ask me why.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Why
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