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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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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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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Guns are beautiful. But I don't like what they do.
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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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The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
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I always think about how Chaka Khan used to take suede, all these classic fabrics, and then make them very movable. She's my everything!
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On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane.
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Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a novel that I have read over and over and over again. Tess is a pure child who has an inner glow none of the others in the book possess. They reject her because she is different, and they try in every possible manner to destroy her, because they are jealous. It is an extraordinary love story.
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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.
