Billy Joel Quotes
Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
Quotes to Explore
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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I think Barack Obama was born into a home not just to a white woman and white grandparents, but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that he should not be ashamed of it and that he should, in fact, be proud of it.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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I go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, like 'Aasif Mandvi in a hat,' and see what comes up.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.
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When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.
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There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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I've been in the danger zone.
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Other people have hang-ups about what's literary or genre or whatever, and that's sort of not my problem. You're supposed to write what you have to write, and you're supposed to keep moving.
Colson Whitehead -
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
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Fortunately, most religious people accept medicine as a gift from God and reap the benefits of both realms.
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
