Billy Joel Quotes
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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Those who go along get along.
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I am confident. My style of play is to control a game. You have to be smart in your brain and fast.
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The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
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As opposed to journalists, politicians cannot make do with questions. They must also offer answers.
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Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
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But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.
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That was my dream, to compete against the best surfers in the best waves. But as a kid, it all seemed so unattainable. It was this big dream, but deep down I never thought it could really happen. But my parents always believed I could do it, and they helped me get through all the stages and take all the right steps.
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I never really had a job, because I've been cycling from such a young age: there was never really a time to have a job. My mum went into Starbucks once and asked if they had a job for me, and they offered me one - but I never took it up because I couldn't fit the job in with school and cycling.
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It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs.
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Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.
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A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics.
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I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
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I lived in buses. I didn't really have anything else. I didn't feel like a female, and I ended up really kind of isolated. Everybody thinks you're so happy and so wealthy and such a big star, but you're really kind of lonely and don't know how to stop it.
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue...
