Billy Joel Quotes
No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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The devil made me do it.
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Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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Yes. I do about 70 shows a year, in the past year I've been to Italy, Australia, Japan, China, just about everywhere. I do it because I love singing. The money is a bonus.
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What I think about is what people spend their time on this planet doing. So No.1 is sleep, No.2 is work, and No.3 is sight, sound, and motion video consumption. Basically, four to five hours a day is what Americans spend consuming video.
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I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.
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No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?
