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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Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.
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More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).
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It's hard not to read the success of someone like Hilary Mantel as the product of a world that is too nervous, too crazy, and perhaps too interesting for some people.
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When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa Monica. But rather than having a football or a baseball on the S, I had a little nine iron. Girls thought it was a flute.
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
