Billy Joel Quotes

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• Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Growing
  • Change
  • Water

• You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you're going to be rewarded with something that is going to please the shareholder.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Want
  • Car
  • Customer

• It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • American
  • History
  • Year

• I'm a big believer that success is never final and failure is never fatal.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Success
  • Failure

• We're blessed to be at a level in my career where I can afford to take out a bus of my own and bring my whole family with me, so that's great, too. The boys are out with us all the time, and it's just great to be able to turn around onstage and see my wife back there behind me.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Time
  • Great
  • Family

• I love pasta. It's something in the water. The pasta and the bread in New York are so good.

  

  Ella Purnell
  • Good
  • Water

• 'They have nothing in their entire arsenal to break the spirit of one single Republican prisoner-of-war who refuses to be broken,' I thought, and that was very true. They cannot or never will break our spirit.

  

  Bobby Sands
  • War
  • True
  • Single

• As an athlete, you sort of just win every day. Because you're going to sometimes lose every day. And so you just keep picking yourself up and going forward.

  

  Beth Brooke
  • Up
  • Athlete

• Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

  

  Alex North
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Important
  • Book
  • Remember

• It makes no difference to me what kind of bat I have. For instance, I often grab the first bat I come across when I go up to the plate. Muggsy McGraw uses a light stick and Jake Stenzel uses a heavy one, but I'm liable to take any one of the miscellaneous lot that falls in my way.

  

  Joe Kelley
  • Up
  • Light

• You can do yoga all day, you can run or bike or swim, but a pull-up will still be hard. It's not that you have to be a juiced-up 'lunk' to do one; it's a matter of physics.

  

  Kyle Hill
  • Up
  • Yoga
  • Bike

• Nothing is ever a setback. If anything, it just motivates you for what's next.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Ifs
  • Next
  • Setback

• Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Nature

• I don't know why I go to extremes.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Why
  • Know
  • Extremes

• Part of me is afraid to let go of this other thing, which was so hugely successful. But on the other hand, I have to move ahead, or else my feet are stuck in the cement. I feel like I'm capable of writing other kinds of music, and I'm at a transitional time in my life.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• Who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people?

  

  e. e. cummings
  • People
  • Pretty
  • City

• I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month.

  

  Steve Cropper Booker T. & the M.G.'s
  • Streets
  • Months
  • Hotel

• The ballpoint pen was invented by László Bíró, a Hungarian journalist who fled to Argentina to escape the German occupation of Europe. In 1943 he licensed his invention to the RAF, and the first ballpoint pens were manufactured in Reading, England, by the Miles aircraft manufacturer, to supply pilots with a lasting ink supply!

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • German
  • England
  • Escape

• Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Disneyland
  • Elvis Presley
  • Peter Pan