There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
BILLY JOELAs an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
More Billy Joel Quotes
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What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
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Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.
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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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