Billy Joel Quotes

Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue...

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• I'm not a very technical musician at all.

  

  Washed Out
  • Musician
  • Very
  • Technical

• People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Live
  • Door

• You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Want
  • Play
  • Ahead

• 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.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • Art
  • Words

• The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Death
  • Determined

• 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.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Book
  • Day
  • Grateful

• Those who go along get along.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Get
  • Go
  • Along

• I am confident. My style of play is to control a game. You have to be smart in your brain and fast.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Game
  • Control
  • Style

• 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.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Feeling
  • Eyes
  • Passion

• I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.

  

  Adam Driver
  • More
  • I Can
  • Strengths

• I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Know
  • Enough
  • Jazz

• 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.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Colleagues

• 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.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Love
  • American
  • America

• If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Want
  • Me
  • Chair

• As opposed to journalists, politicians cannot make do with questions. They must also offer answers.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Questions
  • Politicians
  • Must

• Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Want
  • Know
  • Always

• But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Team
  • Doing
  • Loved

• 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.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • Dream
  • Parents
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any.

  

  David Attenborough
  • World
  • Good
  • Music

• Working out, no matter what time of the night, rejuvenates me. At times, I don't feel sleepy after a workout session, as I am all fresh and charged up, and I don't mind compromising on my sleep.

  

  Anita Hassanandani Reddy
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty. Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I've had close relationships with.

  

  Al Pacino
  • People
  • Men
  • Reality

• I don't know that I'm going to entirely do cloth diapers. I'd like to be ambitious about it, but in all honesty, I can't say that I will.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • Honesty
  • Ambitious
  • Diapers

• Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue...

  

  Billy Joel
  • Lonely
  • Honesty
  • Untrue