Billy Joel Quotes
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Glasgow has truly become my home away from home.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
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'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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In general, when you have success on the field, you're more popular, and you have that fame that comes with it. You realize you're in the public eye more, and you've got to be a little bit more careful about some of the things you're doing out in public and make sure you're smart about the things you say.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Maids in India have egos. Big egos. They do not like being spoken to curtly, and they do not like to be abruptly instructed by a woman they do not know. They come with the feeling that they already know everything. So while training them to do things your way, speak gently, and when they do it right, appreciate it.
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US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
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Leaving your country at a tender age really rearranges the way you perceive the world. So I feel marginally attached to many places rather than deeply attached to any one place.
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The mistake we make is to look for a source of comfort in ourselves: self-contemplation, instead of gazing upon God. In other words, we look for comfort precisely where comfort never can be.
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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In the early 1980s, the government of New Zealand fell into the hands of true believers, globalist believers, and they embraced the theory of inevitability perhaps more completely than anybody else. And it solved in the very short term some of their debt problems, but in the medium- and long-term, it left them in real economic trouble.
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Diamonds may be forever, but emeralds are for 2013.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
