Billy Crystal Quotes
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Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.
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My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that?
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Some companies simply aren't meant to be bigger than they are. They provide products and services that satisfy their customers in a way that pays the bills, produces reasonable profits, and allows them to keep their people employed and fulfilled. And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with that.
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When I look in the mirror, I never see a handsome chap or the person people think I am.
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We have to start making sure that churches start to talk about... black queerness in a way that's affirming. Because a lot of young black men are in the church, and that's where they start to learn this self-hate behavior.
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The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.
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I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I saw how the other half lived, if you will.
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Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
