Billy Crystal Quotes
I'm almost shocked that I'm still around after all of these years... and always grateful that I get another turn to do something.
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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.
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Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'
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My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
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When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital.
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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
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I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a kid - I was 18 - and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas.
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If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you're in a good place and you're in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.
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When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.
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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
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International peace and security depend on certain taboos that are easily recognized when they are broken. It can be more important for an intervention to take place because nuclear or chemical or biological weapons are used as opposed to just measuring how many people are killed.
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As intense as our work is, I try my hardest to live my life so that people in my office feel they can work at 'Frontline' and be parents if they choose to. This goes for the men as well.
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I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because they came in and started directing things like 'Harry Potter.'
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I want it to be said when I leave this world that 'he was not just a money-making machine.'
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There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.
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I started my first company when I was in my college dorm as a senior with two of my really good friends. We started a company that became SparkNotes.com. You know CliffsNotes? SparkNotes is a modern-day version of that.
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First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She was criticized for her politics and for her appearance. Mrs. Roosevelt was attacked for being too involved in politics. Bess Truman was criticized for being uninvolved in politics.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended at all even to take in the whole sick population.
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Earth is in space, too, so really sex in space isn't anything new.
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I'm so grateful to Spotify for the enormous support to the reggaeton movement.
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In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed through use of psychedelics as simply quaint cultural artifacts, painted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation.
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Religious traditions are easy to lose sight of in today's marketing frenzy. Make sure you take time to gently usher your little ones into the rituals that have special meaning for you.
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It's the weird thing that actors do: You jumped across that building because the scene required it.
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I'm almost shocked that I'm still around after all of these years... and always grateful that I get another turn to do something.
