Billy Crystal Quotes
Two things I really wanted to be: a stand-up comic or a New York Yankee - or a really funny New York Yankee.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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I hate competition.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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During a transformation, it's understandable to be hesitant about moving too fast, especially at the outset.
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We got to think of other ways to help these kids out because there's a lot of kids who get hurt in college and then don't make it to the NFL and don't have insurance, and their entire lives are changed when they put their bodies on the line for their school.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
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I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I kind of think of engineering like the chefs at a restaurant. Nobody's going to deny chefs are integrally important, but there's also so many other people who contribute to a great meal.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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Even Merrick Garland can't get up and give a press conference in which he says, "Give me a damn vote." We just hear silence.
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I really want to train Hillary Clinton.
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Two things I really wanted to be: a stand-up comic or a New York Yankee - or a really funny New York Yankee.
