Billy Crystal Quotes
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
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I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
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Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
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I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.
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After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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I'm obsessed with making lists.
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Racism kills people. It kills people!
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When the hospital sends for me, when the ambulance comes and I ease my way out of the world, I'd rather be in Detroit, Michigan, than Lenox Hill.
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I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.
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Embrace your death. . . . Cherish your awareness of death as a gift from the universe.
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No disrespect to Sweden: I didn't think of them as the comedy universe.
