Billy Crystal Quotes
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I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
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I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.
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The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.
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History shows fans want consolidation; you see it across the web every place. The big players are people like Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook.
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The death penalty question should be put on the agenda in Hungary.
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I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.
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I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts.
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I started Verite on savings from three years working at Applebee's in Times Square. I was a ridiculously good waitress. I was making more money than my brother, who worked at a start-up.
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There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.
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The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.
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I got so pissed I took a little poll to see if anyone was sick of gettin' taxed as much as I am. I called 100 people one night and here's the results: everyone I polled said, 'You dumb ass, it's three o'clock in the morning!' (p. 131).
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I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.
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He would not anticipate those counsels which are rather bestowed by circumstances on men, than by men on circumstances.
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Everybody wonders why I continue working at this stage. I keep working because there's always new stories. … And as long as people want me to tell them, I'll be there doing them.
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One winter night, at half past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine
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I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.
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One of the reasons that I accepted, once asked to do Star Trek, was to give a single child a chance to see the long thought, to see themselves some 400 years hence. It occurred to me that we must ensure that we keep in front of children the ever-changing horizon.
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I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.
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We didn't play any Joy Division songs for 10 years after the start of New Order, which was a very honourable thing to do even if it meant shooting ourselves in the foot.
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I'll negotiate with toughness, and with great attention to detail to get the best possible deal for Britain. It's only when we are outside the European Union that we can at last bring those numbers of migrants under control in the way that the public want.
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I tried to buy the script of 'Hancock.' I loved it. The script was far darker and edgier than the movie.
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Deportation isn't something that is suddenly new.
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Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.
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I fell in love with the right person, a person I know and who knows me.
