Billy Joel Quotes
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.
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I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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We need to build opt-in society, outside the U.S., run by technology.
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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Sense8' have enjoyed great success all over the world.
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It's interesting to try to imagine how early humans discovered what was edible and what wasn't. Who figured out that when you cooked stinging nettles, the sting would go away completely? How many people had to die before the relative toxicity of wild mushrooms became widely known?
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In the game of football, you need to be strong, and at my position, you need to be able to put up a good fight. So I work on my upper body and lower body strength because your body's got to be able to last.
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I'm superstitious.
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I think I really benefited from going to college.
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To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.
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I'm not sure I believe in the whole 'ghost-afterlife' thing, but I think places are marked by people who have been there.
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The suburbs are the American dream, right? Living in a nice house, having a good job, a happy family.
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
