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Billy Joel

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

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

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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

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"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."

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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

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"President Obama should be championing American prominence, not apologizing for it."

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"Regis has a great rapport with the American public."

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"This is America, where everything is still possible."

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"America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description."

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"Not to be blasphemous, but I wonder if even the Holy Trinity understands the American tax code."

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"I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect."

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"I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music."
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"Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so."
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"I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary."
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"I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from."
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"Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself."
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"If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time."
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"When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory."
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"I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me."
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