Billy Joel Quotes
They all want your white body, and they await your reply.But, between you and me, and this Staten Island ferry... so do I...
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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I love to push myself.
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
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I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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First and foremost, I look for a great script. Then, the team that I am working with. Only then, we will be able to come up with a good film.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.
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Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
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I just want my films to work. The hit or flop verdict really affects me. I seriously analyse what went wrong if a film turns out to be a dud!
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I honestly think that kids should not exercise: they should keep fit through play. The most important age is zero to seven, both for the kid and the parent - for parents, because this is the time when your kid learns how to walk, talk and other behaviour.
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Boxing is the most beautiful thing after women.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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They all want your white body, and they await your reply.But, between you and me, and this Staten Island ferry... so do I...
