Billy Crystal Quotes
Your success is in your point of view. It's your life that you're talking about; it's your observations. That's the best lesson that I ever had.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
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No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.
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Just do what you believe in, and success will follow.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
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The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
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Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation.
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I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
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When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.
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Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?
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My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.
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To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
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Perhaps a supreme form of charity may be exhibited by one who withholds judgment of another's acts or conduct, remembering that there is only one who can look into the heart and know the intent-and know the honest desires found therein.
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The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world.
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Your success is in your point of view. It's your life that you're talking about; it's your observations. That's the best lesson that I ever had.
