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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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 is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.
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I find inspiration by feeling like I haven't done or achieved anything. I push all songs I've written to the furthest part of my mind so I am not thinking of what I've done. I continue to think on what I need to do.
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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
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Those who enter to buy, support me. Those who come to flatter, please me. Those who complain, teach me how I may please others so that more will come. Those only hurt me who are displeased but do not complain. They refuse me permission to correct my errors and thus improve my service.
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I'm five feet tall - I'm very petite - so for me, if I'm wearing a skirt or dress, it needs to be short, or else it makes me look frumpy. I need to wear either something really short or a maxi dress; anything in between just looks weird.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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I have to admit, I was a little bit of a misfit.
