Billy Joel Quotes
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.
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Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, but I love giving money to Israel.
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It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Each color lives by its mysterious life.
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Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
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As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.
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Real talent shines through regardless of how many others there are around you.
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I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
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Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
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There is great power in deference. Deference works with everybody.
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I'm into wellbeing, not because of social pressures to look a certain way, but because I'm interested in living a long, full and healthy life.
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I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.
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Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.
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Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.
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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
