“I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.”
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Billy Joel 103
American singer-songwriter and pianist 1949Related quotes

“I’d rather be ruled by a competent Turk than an incompetent Christian.”
The earliest published source for such a statement yet located is in Pat Robertson — Where He Stands (1988) by Hubert Morken, p. 42, where such a comment is attributed to Luther without citation.
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“I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.”
Variant: Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Source: Cat's Eye (1988)

The Entertainer.
Song lyrics, Streetlife Serenade (1974)

“He was neither lazy nor incompetent; he merely had occupational claustrophobia.”
Source: Space Opera (1965), Chapter 4 (p. 30)