Billy Joel Quotes
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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I really like clever men who challenge you.
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Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had to learn new phrases. I've had to learn to be more secure about singing in Spanish. But I'm working on it.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
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There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.
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I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.
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I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
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I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.'
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I have read books that are so cliched and lazy, my eyes have bled. But I also have read books marketed under the chick-lit umbrella that are so honest, clever and gritty that I've wanted to give up writing and paint walls instead.
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The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests.
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About a billion years ago, long before the continents had separated to define the ancient oceans, or their own outlines had been determined, a small protuberance jutted out from the northwest corner of what would later become North America.
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Local government in England is simply too big. Our lowest tier serves an average population of 118,500, while in the U.S. and across continental Europe the figures are more like several thousand.
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Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
