Billy Joel Quotes
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Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
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Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that.
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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.
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For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
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I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.
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I'm not big on technology; I only get what I need.
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Ich denke an dichte Fenster! Kein anderes Land kann so dichte und so schöne Fenster bauen.
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I felt it necessary to evolve entirely new concepts (of form and space and paintings) and postulate them in an instrument that could continue to shake itself free from dialectical perversions. The dominant ones, Cubism and Expressionism, only reflected the attitudes of power or spiritual debasement of the individual.
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So many people in the world would rather stay in a situation that's painful but familiar because they're comfortable with it. Not a lot of people have the strength or heart to realize when something's not good for them and to turn around and be alone.
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No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.
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I don't drink at all. I don't condone any of that. And I'm also underage so everything I do is of course under a microscope because a lot of people are onto me growing up. But I won't mess up. I have a lot of good people around me.
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They're sharing a drink they call loneliness But it's better than drinking alone.
