Billy Joel Quotes
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
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We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.
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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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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.
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I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
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If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.
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I was heavily influenced by big voices when I was younger. People like Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, and Patti Labelle really spoke to me. When I got older, I was into Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, and Lauryn Hill, but it wasn't until I started working with a voice coach that I really dove into jazz music.
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People say, 'Do you have the same opportunity today as you had years ago?' And I said, 'Absolutely.' You always have an opportunity. There's always an opportunity, especially in this country.
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The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
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Twitter was around communication and visualizing what was happening in the world in real-time. Square was allowing everyone to accept the form of payment people have in their pocket today, which is a credit card.
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We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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Ain't no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
