Billy Joel Quotes
She can kill with a smile. She can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me.
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We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
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Secularist justices de-Christianized our country. They invented new rights for vicious criminals as though criminal justice were a game. They tore our country apart with idiotic busing orders to achieve racial balance in public schools.
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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The competition between me and Bill Gates, probably: Who can spend money more effectively that can do better philanthropy.
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A few honest men are better than numbers.
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I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
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When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
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I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
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If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.
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I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.
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I wrote and finished the script for 'Man in the Middle' two weeks after the September 11 bombing. It's a very American film about an ex-diplomat based in the Middle East, a leader in the U.S. administration who now sells used cars in the Middle East.
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I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.
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One year, I went to Cannes with the film 'The Indian Runner' that Sean Penn directed. Everyone else in the film was all the same height, and on the red carpet, when they were taking photos, none of them would stand next to me, and I totally got it.
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Future companies will be smaller and more nimble.
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I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.
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A great smile is a wonderful asset, but a good heart is pure gold.
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People don't realize it, but no one lives that rock and roll life 24-7. They think it's hundreds of bottles of champagne flowing and private jets and money. But there's a lot of time when you're traveling - time to think, time to be lonely. Sometimes it gets to you.
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She can kill with a smile. She can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me.
