Billy Joel Quotes
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children and not just let them roam the streets.
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I fight AIDS because it's a killer disease, destroys the human race in all fields.
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Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
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Here's the thing about me: I have a job to do and I do it.
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The scariest time of my life was when I knew my Nana was dying. It was horrible, as there's nothing I could do to stop it. I grew up living with my Mum, brother and Nana (my mum's mum), so it felt like I lost a parent rather than a grandparent. It makes you realise the fragility of life.
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
