Billy Joel Quotes
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I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
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When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
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My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.
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I am not a fan of books.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.
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While the Forbes Council does offer some benefits and opportunities for members, the Council may want to be careful going forward to avoid the many pitfalls that befell Trump University.
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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Trust the young people; trust this generation's innovation. They're making things, changing innovation every day. And all the consumers are the same: they want new things, they want cheap things, they want good things, they want unique things. If we can create these kind of things for consumers, they will come.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.
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Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
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Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right.
