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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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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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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I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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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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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
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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 important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. Never lose a holy curiosity. … Don't stop to marvel.
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As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.
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He says it's a secret plan, but the only secret is that he has no plan.
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It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.
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I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.
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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.
