Billy Joel Quotes
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
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The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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I could give you a long list of things I like about Britain, but essentially what it comes down to is that I feel about Britain the same way I feel about my wife. I'm crazy about my wife - we just kind of suit each other. I wouldn't say that she's the most fantastic human being that's ever lived, but she is for me.
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I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.
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My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.
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A Heroick Poem, truly such, is undoubtedly the greatest Work which the Soul of Man is capable to perform.
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Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
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I'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal.
