Your mother told you all that ...

Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
 Billy Joel

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Amores Perros and Once Were Warriors had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.
 Brendan Fletcher
We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.
 Steven Pressfield
If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.
You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.
 Miyamoto Musashi
Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

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I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
 Billy Joel
In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
 Billy Joel
A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.
 Billy Joel
I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
 Billy Joel
So you play your albums and you smoke your pot And you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot Oh, but still you're aching for the things you haven't got, What went wrong? And if you can't understand why your world is so dead And why you've got to keep in style and feed your head Well, you're twenty one and still you mother makes your bed And that's too long.
 Billy Joel