Billy Joel Quotes
You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.
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New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like.
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A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.
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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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I understood from an early age what being competitive means.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an orderly world system with economies truly open to international trade.
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I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.
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I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
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There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.
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I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.
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I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'
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No matter where you came from, you can be inspired.
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I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.
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Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.
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You have to ration your opponents' victories. You have to mete them out, slowly and meanly. You have to make your opponents subliminally grateful for every little bit of compliance. That way you get away with giving up ten small losses a day, rather than ten big ones.
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Both poetry and lyrics and all visual arts draw their power from their ability to express abstractions of reality. ...that is a feature of the musical brain.
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Reality TV is a lot about drama, but for the first time in a long time, you actually have role models on TV.
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When I'm at school, I usually put my hair up. High pony, side pony, or a bun, I like my hair out of my face.
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Looking at me now, it might be hard to believe that I didn't even have hair in my armpits when I graduated from high school. I guarantee you I was the last guy to go through puberty in my class.
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You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.
