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I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women. ↗

— Billy Joel

#meet #music #now #probably #reason

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something. ↗

— Billy Joel

#being #deep-seated #paranoia #something

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge. ↗

— Billy Joel

#being #demand #exports #finally #huge

Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#confidence #developed #eventually #invited #me

I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do! ↗

— Roland Joffe

#always #asked #because #cannot #conversation

I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#during #good #happened #history #i

I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#i #never #something #wanted #where

They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#dimension #element #fascinate #first #i

We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that. ↗

— Mike Johanns

#beef #egypt #excited #had #lebanon

I never would have believed as a candidate for the U.S. Senate that the U.S. government could buy GM without a hearing, with no vote, yes or no. There are billions and billions of dollars at stake here. ↗

— Mike Johanns

#billions #buy #candidate #could #dollars