Billy Joel Quotes
There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
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I am not honest.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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People trash talk me.
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A good leader must be fair.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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In L.A., it's not on the surface. Everything is in the cracks. The restaurant out front will look like this old, boring place, and you'll go inside, and it's this lush, beautifully designed restaurant.
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The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?
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I find the ones that have the most emotional weight, the heaviest songs. For some reason, for me, they're usually the ones I write the quickest. I put more work into uplifting material, I think, sometimes.
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The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. It’s a tired reading style. I’m sick of it. It attaches more importance to the words than the words themselves—as they’ve been arranged—could possibly sustain, and it gives poets and poetry a bad name.
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There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
