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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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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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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Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.
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Marx profoundly affected those who did not accept his system. His influence extended to those who least supposed they were subject to it.
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After doing 'Pitch Perfect,' I didn't expect to do other musicals, but then I was offered 'The Last Five Years' and 'Into the Woods,' which are two of the greatest pieces of theater that I can think of. So obviously I wasn't going to be like, 'Oh I'm trying to really stay away from musicals right now, so thanks, but I'll pass.'
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Earlier today, the jury at the Martha Stewart trial reached a verdict. Martha was found guilty on all charges. In a related story, there's a huge sale at K-Mart.
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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.
