Billy Joel Quotes
I don't think of myself as a singer. The only reason I ever got onstage was to meet girls.
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Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade.
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
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We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.
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We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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I feel great physically. I feel really good.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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Having a great idea is important. But having a great team is also important.
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I think George Allen from Virginia was a distinguished governor, he's a distinguished senator and head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee and won some significant victories. He is a very attractive guy and would make a tremendous president.
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I don't think of myself as a singer. The only reason I ever got onstage was to meet girls.
