Billy Joel Quotes
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.
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I know I look super young.
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I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.
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When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the writing the songs, the playing the songs and the sharing and the recording and experimenting. It was exciting. Then, this thing called success came, and something happened at some point where I became disenchanted, and I lost the innocence.
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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
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I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in middle school or high school, I started with novels.
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Those whom the gods love grow young.
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To survive as a species on this planet, we're going to have to see ourselves as Earthlings.
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Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century.
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A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.
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Democrats have pushed for equal pay for women because we know that when women succeed, America succeeds.
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I'm not into having a pedigree dog.
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Satire is used for political purposes all the time, but obviously there's a time and a place. I think in the current climate, it can be very difficult to speak your mind, but sometimes, I believe, we're all in danger and I think this discussion needs to be widened.
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Don't take any shit from anybody!
