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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The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.
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It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope.
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There are a lot of people that got short this market.
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The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line.
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When I was thinking about what we could do in terms of what production values of Broadway might be able to add to the show, I had this thought that it would be really cool if we had a coup de théâtre. What would they want? And then I was like, an amazing, enormous tuna puppet that was like 30 by 40 feet would be pretty incredible. So I called up Basil Twist, and he got really excited immediately and started sketching out his idea, and I think it's a real highlight of the show.
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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?
