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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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
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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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Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.
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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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What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?
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I'm one of these people who couldn't imagine the future. The future never occurred to me. I just loved life every day.
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It's time to do something different. Mind you, I'm grateful to have my career with The B-52s, but it's nice to have fun and play with my voice.
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One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.
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He's for us, He loves us, and sometimes, we need to just stop, enjoy His presence and take that in.
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I fell in love with the right person, a person I know and who knows me.
