Billy Joel Quotes
The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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Singing in second language makes you brave in a way you're not aware of. You say things in very blunt ways or direct ways. It sets your mind free because you don't have a history with the language. You have to use the most direct way of communication, which is saying what you want to say in the way you can.
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It's a bit weird, because I don't really know what people expect or think being political is; I just don't get it. What am I supposed to do as a pop star-stroke-revolutionary? Get up and put my balaclava on, go to the grocery store and then invent some Google viruses, and then go to rob a bank to fund my revolution on YouTube?
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If I were to go blind, what would bother me the most would be no longer to be able to stare idiotically at the passing clouds.
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One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I'm tired of that I light a cigar to pass the time, and think: God only knows what the good Lord really meant with me, or what He meant to make of me.
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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
