Billy Joel Quotes
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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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I got no hate in me.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.
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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
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The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.
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I think I'm a good dad. It's hard. Ultimately, it's our kids that have the final word. So we'll have to ask them.
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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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When you're on stage, you're in control. No one can get to you.
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You are told from the moment you enter school that time is constant. It never changes. It is one of those set things in life that you can always rely on... much like death and taxes. There will always be sixty seconds in a minute. There will always be sixty minutes in an hour. And there will always be twenty-four hours in a day. Time was not fluctuating. It moved on at the same, constant pace at every moment in your life. And that was the biggest load of crap that I'd ever been taught in school.
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If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.
