Billy Crystal Quotes
What life throws at you - you just have to learn how to hit it, which is a baseball metaphor. The ball's outside, you hit to the right. You don't let them go by.
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When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.
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Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.
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I hope to do multiple characters throughout my life that are separate from me. I think it's a cop-out if you play yourself in everything.
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Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
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Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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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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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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I get really nervous when people are like, 'I saw you in a trailer! I saw you on TV!' Genuinely, my cheeks get red.
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Attributed in the 'quote of the day' source code of the 'Fortune' computer program (June 1987); more at 'The Most Exciting Phrase in Science Is Not ‘Eureka!’ But ‘That’s funny …’' at Quote Investigator
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What I'm looking for in my interaction is critical thinking on the part of the person pitching to me.
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The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.
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What life throws at you - you just have to learn how to hit it, which is a baseball metaphor. The ball's outside, you hit to the right. You don't let them go by.
