Billy Joel Quotes

You can’t go the distance with too much resistance.

Billy Joel

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• I'm on the road earning my money. I didn't get any million pound record deals. Not unless you're Jedward! I'm doing very well, but I still have a mortgage to pay off. So I'm on the road.

  

  Imelda May
  • Money
  • Road
  • Doing

• A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

  

  Mae West
  • Up
  • Tied
  • Likely

• In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Prove
  • Possible
  • Recovery

• I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.

  

  Hans Blix
  • World
  • War
  • Decision

• I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Day

• My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • World
  • Father
  • Faith

• The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Passion
  • First
  • Unity

• Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Bad
  • Weapons
  • Mission

• In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Up
  • Way
  • Tough

• I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Live

• The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • May
  • Experience
  • Problems

• China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Strong
  • Government
  • China

• I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • World
  • Live
  • Learning

• The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Money
  • Reading
  • Growth

• In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • End
  • Distance
  • Encouragement

• Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Author

• God, I needed you," he murmured. "I can't even tell you how many times I thought about this. The funny thing is, I don't need you any less now. I think I need you more." ~Shane~

  

  Rachel Caine
  • God
  • Funny
  • Conversation

• The job of the baby is to learn.

  

  Elizabeth Spelke
  • Job
  • Learn
  • Baby

• I don't know that white people need to be 'allies' so much as understand that any black struggle in America is ultimately a struggle for the large country. 'Ally' presumes a kind of distance that I am not sure exists.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • America

• I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting...

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Life
  • Live
  • Dream

• You can’t go the distance with too much resistance.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Distance
  • Too Much
  • Resistance