Billy Crystal Quotes
My parents always looked like they loved being together. That's what I took from them, and that's how my wife and I are. I still feel like we're dating.
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Something like your parents divorcing never quite leaves you. What you thought was real isn't real anymore, and that changes your perspective. It makes you more wary but also means you are better equipped to deal with challenges.
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
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My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
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I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
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Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.
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My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
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You have to ask yourself if you want to be the kind of actress who's interesting, or the kind of actress who's meant to play the pretty-but-uninteresting wife of a chubby guy on a network sitcom.
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Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
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Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
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The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.
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I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are - and not just financially - prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together.
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One thing my wife says is bad about me, is that I still care too much.
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Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.
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I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.
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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
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I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents.
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Eurasia is the world's axial supercontinent. A power that dominated Eurasia would exercise decisive influence over two of the world's three most economically productive regions: Western Europe and East Asia.
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Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
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Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming.
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Absent parents aren't abusive per se. They're neglectful. They love in a very imperfect way. There are parents like that, and they do love their daughters and sons, but they're not parents in the way that we might think of it.
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I allowed Rick Santorum to express views and ideas that the American people never would have had expressed.
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My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers and sisters, and he used to tell us about growing up near the Irrawaddy river and how one brother was eaten by a crocodile.
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Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.
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My parents always looked like they loved being together. That's what I took from them, and that's how my wife and I are. I still feel like we're dating.
