Billy Joel Quotes
There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.
Quotes to Explore
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
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I still keep my accent.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.
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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
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Cute girls and burgers. What more can you ask for? That's why we live in America.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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Fashion anticipates.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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The preceding merely defines a way of thinking. But the point is to live.
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Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow' has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations.
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She touched her glass to his. “You think it’s going to be more than seven?” His eyes consumed her. “Baby, seven is the minimum number I plan to reach when it comes to the list of highs I intend to achieve with you.
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For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.
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There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.
