Billy Joel Quotes
She's got a way about her...I don't know what it is... but I know that I can't live without her...
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.
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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
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I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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'Bagdad Cafe' was a film that changed many, many people's lives... how they saw themselves and how they looked at their life situation. I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives, and that's wonderful.
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
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I can truly say with Shelley I have been fortunate in friendships: that I have been no less fortunate in my enemies than in my friends.
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As animation directors, you're the first one on the film; you're the last one off, and you get to learn from and touch every department throughout the whole journey. I don't know any other job in the world that's like that. I don't think live-action is like that. It's a very different sort of experience.
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I live in the moment.
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Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!
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Taking the time to meditate is as important as taking the time to breathe. One pumps oxygen into the body, the other pumps peace into the mind.
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She's got a way about her...I don't know what it is... but I know that I can't live without her...
