Billy Crystal Quotes
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.
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I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.
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When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
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You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
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You are alive, but you should enjoy that while you can. I try to keep that same life philosophy of just enjoying the moments that come my way and not be the one that gets in my own way from making the most of the opportunities that I have.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.
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When I heard Flying Lotus, I was like, 'Wow, okay, everything can be off the grid.'
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You can model experiments on computers now and then execute them, and you don't actually need a fully stocked lab.
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I was raised mostly by my mom.
