Billy Joel Quotes
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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All men begin their learning with Homer.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.
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I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
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People are mean and hateful, angry - haters everywhere, stupid blogs.
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We know what makes babies smart and happy and thrive. It's having human beings who are dedicated to caring for them - human beings who are well supported, not stressed out and not poor.
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My name is Michael Pennington, and I am not a comic character.
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When you're in a situation that is foreign to you, you just have to pull yourself together and adapt.
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Being in good shape is my lifestyle, and I can't remember a time when I was out of shape. I try to live an active lifestyle and mix up all types of activities like fighting, running and swimming.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
