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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Mackerel is sustainable and healthy.
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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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Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.
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I know that people can live celibate lives. I did it myself for many years.
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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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Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.
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The biggest misconception is that sometimes activists have to be loud and are radical to get their message across.
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I think that life is a bit like a biscuit that you only get one bite at. The best thing is to just go for it. If you feel an inclination for something, just go for it. Life is too short to muck about doubting yourself. It's better to try and just shore yourself up with some sort of confidence. And get on with it!
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I'm proud of my work and how far I've come, and I'm proud of the way that I did it.
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I didn't grow up wealthy. We couldn't even afford spaghetti sauce when I was first born, but my mom and dad worked really hard and came from the bottom up.
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To me, what the 'Billy on the Street' persona is, is me as a 12-year-old.
