Billy Crystal Quotes
That's the thing that I'm really most proud of: that I'm still... people still would like to see me. I love seeing them.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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The weekend after 'Kimmy' started streaming on Netflix, I did notice a definite difference in people on the street recognizing you. I think that's such a strange thing to happen. It's like, you asked for it, you went and put yourself in the public eye, so don't be surprised people recognize you, but that part can be strange.
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When you have demonization of a group of people, it's easy to clump them all together and not understand them.
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Sometimes I have to shut off the omnipresent disco ball and flashing lights that are always in my head. It's a part of maturing, I guess - just learning that it's not just always about a quick, easy fix of getting people to dance.
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That's the thing that I'm really most proud of: that I'm still... people still would like to see me. I love seeing them.
