Billy Eichner Quotes
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The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
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Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
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Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.
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I missed singing. I missed performing in a nightclub.
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Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me.
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I constantly think I'll be found out any second. Some of the crazy stuff that goes through your head. Once you've moved on from the scene, that's it: it's going in the telly and there's nowt you can do about it! It's really scary.
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I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.
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I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy.
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I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn't even have inhalers back in Russia.
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I was the rebel in our family and a child of the eighties. That meant going to the mall.
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I was always in a big hurry to do everything. Before I was 20, I was married twice and had two kids. But I don't regret any of it. I learned a lot about myself. I had a lot to say for someone my age, real early on.
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Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer. Bet she got C's in high school practical math. Give her a job in personnel.'
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And all, but Lust, is turned to dustIn Humanity's machine.
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Let us do our thinking on these great questions, not with our eyes fixed on our bank account, but with a wise outlook on the fields of the future and with the consciousness that the spirit of the Eternal is seeking to distil from our lives, some essence of righteousness, before they pass away.
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What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.
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It needs more skill than I can tellTo play the second fiddle well.
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Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
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'Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone.'
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If I like chocolate it won't surprise you that I have a few chocolates in my fridge, but if you find out I've got 16 warehouses full of chocolate, you'd think I was insane. All these rich guys are insane, obsessive compulsive twits obsessed with money — money is all they think about — they're all nuts.
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Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world.
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There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.
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When I had independence, it was a constant battle within me to figure out when am I on my own. And also the insecurity that my life engendered, especially as a freelance cartoonist, kept me in a constant state of anxiety as to whether I am going to be able to meet my financial obligations.
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To me, what the 'Billy on the Street' persona is, is me as a 12-year-old.
