Billy Joel Quotes
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I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.
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In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.
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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
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We want to play a really physical style ball, and so, for us tackling, we know we are shoulder-based tackling team, and we want to hit that strike zone just like you're throwing fastballs into that catchers' mitt just as hard as you can.
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Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
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I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.
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One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
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Parents need a full continuum of care and support from birth to kindergarten that is affordable and accessible - that means full day and full year. And let's not forget that even in elementary school, working parents need access to the same kind of quality, affordable after-school programs!
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I always like to sing barefoot.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
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We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
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It would be better if you began to teach others only after you yourself have learned something.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.
