Billy Joel Quotes
I know I'm searching for something Something so undefined That it can only be seen By the eyes of the blind In the middle of the night.
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I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.
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I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
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The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.
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I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
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My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
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Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is not my sound forever... I'm a human, so hopefully, I will always develop.
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I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
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I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.
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'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
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Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.
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The most calmest place I can be is the studio. And like, I stay in there 'cause I know, when I come out, it's back to reality. Man, if you're angry all day, man, stay in the studio.
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People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world.
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I apologize to all my fans. I ask for your prayers for a successful surgery and healthy body. I will be back in shape to fight again and to give you more excitement. A big hug for all of you and be with God.
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I know I'm searching for something Something so undefined That it can only be seen By the eyes of the blind In the middle of the night.
