Billy Crystal Quotes
Nothing takes the sting out of these tough economic times like watching a bunch of millionaires giving golden statues to each other.
Quotes to Explore
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Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.
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I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.
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I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs.
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Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.
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In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.
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After a decade in public life working to stop Iran from ever acquiring nuclear weapons, I cannot support a deal giving Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief - in return for letting it maintain an advanced nuclear program and the infrastructure of a threshold nuclear state.
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If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
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Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
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Russia's assertiveness in global affairs is something I look upon with great concern, which we need to address with eyes wide open and a healthy degree of skepticism.
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We tried every single way of giving birth. It didn't work. I wasn't too crazy about having to do a C-section and take all the drugs. Finally, I just had to be like, 'Let it go.'
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Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else.
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I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.
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I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.
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Giving is an expression of gratitude for our blessings.
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When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.
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I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.
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In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.
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I think you should dress nicely for airports. You’re surrounded by people coming from all walks of life. You should look your best.
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It's always interesting researching characters and as I get older and the more that I work in this business, I do more and more of it because I realize how important it is.
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Nothing takes the sting out of these tough economic times like watching a bunch of millionaires giving golden statues to each other.
