Billy Joel Quotes
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Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.
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A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.
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What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
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It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.
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One of my books, 'Rain Falling on My Face,' earned me the 39th Edogawa Ranpo prize. It's a very prestigious literary prize in Japan, mostly for mysteries and thrillers.
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Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP.
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I'm from Holland, and I'm used to rain.
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I didn't have a particular persona. I'm not Alice Cooper, you know?
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I really haven't been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn't until I filled up my husband's Toyota Prius Hybrid that I had a moment of understanding of how people who drive gas cars feel.
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My soul desires a pre-industrial world, and since I can't have that, I don't really care for anything material.
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I like to win, I like to compete and I like to sack the quarterback. I imagine there's a team out there looking for that.
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The First Lady is such a fascinating office to hold. You're not elected, but it's very much official. You can see the latitude of power of that office.
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When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.
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OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.
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The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. If both are not accorded the same protection, then it is not equal.
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Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.
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I did the whole rock and roll thing that's coming up. I think you're going to enjoy that! 'Burt Rocks', it's called. I like that he's a dreamer; I like how positive he is. There's a lot of things I think I can learn from Burt.
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The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they intend to alter it, what they expect to gain in return, where they will raise the capital to accomplish their vision. Many of their stories turn out to be flawed or mistaken, of course, but the capacity to envision a set of future events and then act to fulfill them is a central source of capitalism's strength and its dominance of society.
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I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
