Billy Eichner Quotes
'Billy on the Street' is a very exhausting show to do, as you can imagine, but it's worth it.
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To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.
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When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly in Canada, missed out on an outpouring of brilliant R&B music.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
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I told my parents that I will marry any girl they choose for me. They also told me that they are open to considering any girl I choose. We were very open about it throughout.
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A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.
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Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as 'you' is here and now and nowhere else.
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My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.
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Companies need to understand that the quicker they report product safety problems to CPSC, the quicker we can take action together and protect consumers from injuries.
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Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.
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There's different shopping in Paris than there is at a bazaar in Istanbul, but they're all wonderful.
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The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
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I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP.
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In the Senate, where 60 votes are required to do anything important, you have to work with your colleagues on both sides of the aisle.
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I want to tell them (western countries) just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime (in Israel) soon be wiped out.'
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I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported.
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I don't have a checklist. Whatever material excites me, they'll call for a certain genre or combination of genres. It'll come naturally and I'll be eager to learn how that thing works. I learn the rules, and I'll probably break some of them.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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I'd hate wearing suits every day.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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'Billy on the Street' is a very exhausting show to do, as you can imagine, but it's worth it.
