Billy Joel Quotes
I hate making videos. Songs are not visual. You get it out of the air. You don't watch it on MTV.
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.
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I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.
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At some point in time I will be honored if I would be mentioned as a coach.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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I have the great good fortune that one of my collaborators in work, Anne Case, is also my collaborator in life.
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I do think the love-gone-wrong songs go over better, only because those melodies and those lyrics have a different feel that you can grasp on if you're a torch singer like myself.
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This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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I hate making videos. Songs are not visual. You get it out of the air. You don't watch it on MTV.
