Billy Joel Quotes
It's a little intimidating to walk into a studio and know that you're going to sing a duet with Barbra Streisand.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
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Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
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All the things that are in the past are in the past.
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You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.
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It's our job as economic developers in the state to make sure any prospect receives all available incentives.
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Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
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I think being busy is a healthy thing.
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This book here, 'The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,' in it, I put together a case against George Bush that could result - it absolutely could result in his being prosecuted for first-degree murder in an American courtroom.
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I just want to make great films and be good in them. And I think that my perception of what's great in a film is constantly evolving.
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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Personally, I don't wear fur.
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It's quite a thrill to be playing a hero.
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'When a man leaves a woman, especially when it was perceived that he has left for a piece of ass-a good one!-there are 50 percent of the population who will love the woman who was left,' he told me.
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God doesn’t care what you call yourself. He’s not impressed with Catholic, Protestant, Methodist, Episcopalian, Baptist, Lutheran… Those are words that people made up, and they mean nothing to God…nothing. He sees right through all that stuff, into your heart. It’s not about church, it’s not about doing a list of activities, and it’s not about calling yourself a particular name or going through some particular ritual. It’s much more personal than that.
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If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart into the wind. There you'll find my kindred spirit. There you'll meet me as a friend. It is just a kindred spirit and a song to let you in.
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I've never wanted to be a star, I never wanted to be a famous person or anything like that, and I think my fans know that as well.
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Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
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And even me who did know them. I—I hated being loved by them. But I couldn’t run. I couldn’t. It is useless to run from a storm. So I stayed. I know about storms as well as anyone.
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The revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist in a state of tension.
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AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.
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Hire people who intimidate you.
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It's a little intimidating to walk into a studio and know that you're going to sing a duet with Barbra Streisand.
