Billy Joel Quotes
You're having a hard time and lately you don't feel so good; You're getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It's alright, it's alright; Sometimes that's what it takes. You're only human, you're allowed to make your share of mistakes.
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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I would love to do some theater.
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You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death. And the paddles that are internal shock you back and restore your rhythm to its normal and natural state.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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Everyone should be good at what they do.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.
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We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.
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If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.'
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I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.
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It is up to God to take revenge. Only God can judge. I don't have to worry about getting even with anybody or taking out any kind of aggression on anybody. Doing that is a weakness, anyway.
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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
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Not only was it that I surprised people by beating Bret Hart, but it was a great match. They still rate it as one of the best wrestling matches of all time.
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Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging - weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa was important to me as an example of everything I didn't want to do. I'm very grateful to him, actually.
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You're having a hard time and lately you don't feel so good; You're getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It's alright, it's alright; Sometimes that's what it takes. You're only human, you're allowed to make your share of mistakes.
