Billy Joel Quotes
I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "River Of Dreams" in '93.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions.
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Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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The fact is I'm not making a film in order to draw pictures or make images about Iran.
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Sometimes I need to look at the scoreboard to figure out whether I'm batting hundred-plus or whether I am on zero.
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Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.
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I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "River Of Dreams" in '93.
