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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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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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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My life is European.
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I blow up fireworks all the time, and I love making milkshakes and banana splits.
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I happened to fall into a job that wound up being a seminal piece of television history, which was a show I did on HBO called 'The Wire.' That experience really set the bar for me and opened a lot of doors. It also gave me a lot of street cred in terms of my phone ringing and job offers.
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When I had a group of undergraduates in the room, I would say to them, 'How many of you want to run for office someday?' And almost every male hand in the room would go up. And very few of the young women.
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People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.
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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.
