Billy Joel Quotes
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The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
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I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I think a majority of the people like what he's doing.
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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
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I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.
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What matters is that there is somewhere for those who are troubled, threatened or afraid to turn to in their darkest hour. What matters is that there are those who are willing and able to use the law as an instrument of inclusion, of protection, and of freedom.
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Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world.
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God help us for we knew the worst too young.
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No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
