Billy Joel Quotes
I was listening to stuff and I realized that I've had a lot of different lives. You know the theory [that says] every seven years, you have a different life? I think that's true.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.
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I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
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History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.
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When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.
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It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.
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I have to keep explaining to people that screen kissing isn't quite the same; it's close, but it isn't quite the same as a normal, real-life kiss.
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I was listening to stuff and I realized that I've had a lot of different lives. You know the theory [that says] every seven years, you have a different life? I think that's true.
