Billy Crystal Quotes
As I sit here writing and look across the room at Janice, I keep thinking of the most heartbreaking question: which of us will go first?
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.
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Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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It's hard to kill that father-son bond.
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Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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“Music stays in the air. It travels at the speed of breath at the sound of light.It is never not heard.It can wait centuries if it has to.”
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
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AIDS had landed and I was terrified. I was very scared, just as everyone was in the '80s. It was really hard to be sexually active and to sleep with men and with women and not feel you had a responsibility in terms of having safe sex.
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I never wanted to hurt anyone else, most of all my family and my kids.
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As I sit here writing and look across the room at Janice, I keep thinking of the most heartbreaking question: which of us will go first?
