Billy Crystal Quotes
I love Mickey Mantle. Would I have felt the same if I had known when I was eight years old what I know now?
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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I want the single player experience.
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Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.
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I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.
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Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.
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Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States, are using our power legitimately. That belief - that we are acting in the interests of the global commons and in accordance with the rule of law - is what the military would call a 'force multiplier.'
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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I don't read critics, and I don't care what they say. You can't let them steal your soul. You do what the director and production is committed to doing. I just think it's terrible that critics have the power to keep people away from a good production.
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Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases. Government that's not particularly caring and is hands-off is not particularly inspiring.
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The internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.
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Relations between States and within States are correct to the extent that they respect the truth. When, instead, truth is violated, peace is threatened, law is endangered, then, as a logical consequence, forms of injustice are unleashed.
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Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.
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I love Mickey Mantle. Would I have felt the same if I had known when I was eight years old what I know now?
