Billy Crystal Quotes
When you're the host of the Academy Awards, and you grew up watching Bob Hope and Johnny Carson, and now it's your turn, and you get a chance to run with the baton on the relay for a while, I really embraced it and just really loved being there.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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History's a resource.
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It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
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The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
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Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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Whatever I have done so far has led me to 'Kaabil.' It is a big opportunity for me to establish myself more commercially. It is a huge platform.
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We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I have changed the style of functioning of the government and administration and managed to change the perception.
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When you walk out of your house in the morning, you don't know what you're going to see.
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The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.
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There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
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I understood from a very young age that school was important and that my parents were making great sacrifices for me. Every morning I saw my father get up and go to a job that he didn't really like. They came to France for the same reasons all immigrants move to another country - so their kids could have a better way of life.
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If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential. We're capable of doing that.
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When you're the host of the Academy Awards, and you grew up watching Bob Hope and Johnny Carson, and now it's your turn, and you get a chance to run with the baton on the relay for a while, I really embraced it and just really loved being there.
