Billy Joel Quotes
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.
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It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
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One of the things I really learned from my first term is the importance of focusing. In that sense, it is a deliberate effort. What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit.
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Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.
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I think that Linda Perry is such a beautiful example of strong female representation in the industry.
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Do what's good for you Or you're not good for anybody.
