Billy Crystal Quotes
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
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I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
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People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
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In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.
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The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'
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I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.
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Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.
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Even if a sense of honor and duty were not the primary motivating factors in the Warren Commission's work, simple self-interest would naturally have induced its members not to try to cover up the existence of a conspiracy if, in fact, they found one.
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I want people to be happy.
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Ignorant power is a bane!
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It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.
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Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen.
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By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be represented as a bête noire, the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for the English!
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If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would be in trouble because - not that I wouldn't be able to step up to it - but I wouldn't love it. I wouldn't want to be that person; that wouldn't be my natural thing.
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When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.
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I have to admit, I was a little bit of a misfit.
