Billy Crystal Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
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Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I'm a tough, heroic figure, but I'm a sensitive pussycat.
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When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
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Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.
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It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.
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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
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Instead of abandoning competition and giving banks protected monopolies once again, the public would be better served by making it easier to close banks when they get into trouble. Instead of making banking boring, let us make it a normal industry, susceptible to destruction in the face of creativity.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
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It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.
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We are convinced that locking Russia out of Europe is not rational.
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It's always a thrill to wear the flag and ride for Canada in any competition, but especially the Olympics.
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Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.
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We have concentrated wealth and capital to such a degree that the vast majority of us don't have the discretionary dollars to make our economy go and grow.
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I heard Tony Bennett say that when you're a big deal early on, you have to maintain that level forever, and it's very scary. You have to keep hitting those home runs, turning out hits.
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If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
