Billy Crystal Quotes
There used to be that you only had four or five critics that you would look to for intelligent conversation, but now there are millions of people who can just press 'send,' and everyone's got an opinion even if no one cares what they say. It makes things a little bit tougher.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.
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I have a hard time with abstractions. I always go to the personal.
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Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of self-reliance.
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It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.
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I'm happiest when I'm discussing a script and working with interesting people.
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'Shark Tank' is fun, but it's all business. We use our own money, and the competition between the sharks is fierce. More importantly, it's an opportunity to invest in businesses that are being watched and considered by millions of people every time it's shown.
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There used to be that you only had four or five critics that you would look to for intelligent conversation, but now there are millions of people who can just press 'send,' and everyone's got an opinion even if no one cares what they say. It makes things a little bit tougher.
