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Billy Joel Quotes

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 9, 1949

Topics

Fun Laugh Cry More Saints Rather

I'm elected. I don't report to any politician. I report to the people. If I had to report to any politician, I'd quit tomorrow. I'm not tall, dark and handsome. They don't vote for me because I look like a movie star. I can't get that vote. People keep voting for me because they like what I do.

Tomorrow People Me Voting Handsome

In a lot of ways, the real learning at RISD happened after-hours when you're working side by side with your colleagues.

Learning Colleagues You Real Side

When I was 17, I worked at a bagel shop - I ate so many! I was also in all the school musicals, which we rehearsed for during the afternoons.

Jenna Ushkowitz

School Musicals Many Which Shop Ate

I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.

Robert Sternberg

Doing You Statistics Group Teach

We like to believe we are in control of our destinies, even though we never are and we never have been.

Control Believe Never Been Even Our

I never think about any of my accomplishments and I always get butterflies in my stomach and I never get too comfortable with the status.

Think Comfortable Never Stomach Get

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Good Fear Good Teacher Teacher

The Tea Party and the like are about what we can't do, instead of the American ideal of what we can.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

Tea American Party Ideal Like About

I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something resembling a happily ever after. I am supposed to be above such flights of fantasy, but I am not. I am enamored of fairy tales.

I Am Long Princess Never Fairy

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

Character Literature Years Last Pope

I never bet against anyone. If people do something that has a true purpose, and they do it with boldness, I root for them.

Purpose People True Never Boldness

I usually get so warned when I go to Detroit, like, 'Oh my God, don't go to this section, don't go to that section.' I've never had any issues in Detroit. I love that there's enough of a racial mix of people to make fun of. I've always had a good time there.

Lisa Lampanelli

Love Good God Time Fun People

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