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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Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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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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I was totally into cartoon babes when I was a little dude. Cheetara from the 'Thundercats,' then Jessica Rabbit, and finally I moved onto a real-life human being and was into Punky Brewster, and then Christina Applegate on 'Married with Children.'
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Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?
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A big part of the accelerator is to help scientists become entrepreneurs. I like to think about each business being built on three major areas: creating the value, creating the product, and extracting the value. We provide help in each of these areas.
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The most important thing is to talk to people that have jobs that you might like and to see what they say the job involves.
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I never really thought about getting married - it just kind of happened. It seemed natural, the right thing to do. It was kind of a celebration of the time.
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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.
