Billy Joel Quotes

Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

Billy Joel

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I think my dad did legal work for someone who had a Packard Bell 8088, and they couldn't pay him, so they gave him a computer. I was initially not allowed to touch it, but that didn't last long. I started tinkering with it, and there were many times I screwed up the computer.

Jeremy Stoppelman

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You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

John Lennon

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It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

Matthew Weiner

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Both Frankenstein and the Hulk are looked at as horrific, but they're just trying to find their way, like all of us.

Matt Czuchry

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The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

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I feel gigantic affection for all of Homeland Security at airports.

Jeff Perry

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When you do a menu at a restaurant, you have to be the engineer of that menu. It has to be a crowd-pleaser.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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I love my fans, and I love my relationship with the fans, but when you're a performer, and you're used to being the mac daddy, the main cat, and all of a sudden you're not that guy anymore, it's kind of a whole different spectrum and a whole different level.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

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It's a bit weird; everybody is trying to be different, but then they're exactly the same as whatever mob they hang out with.

Travis Fimmel

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I promise that if there was no Hillary Clinton, there would still be a 'Commander in Chief' - I want to have a hit show that people enjoy, and really, that's it.

Rod Lurie

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If you ask me what's Aventura's forte, I'll obviously say its capacity to deliver hits.

Romeo Santos

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Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.

Lucas Papademos

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