Billy Eichner Quotes

To me, what the 'Billy on the Street' persona is, is me as a 12-year-old.

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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.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • People
  • American
  • Death

• Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Children
  • Start

• Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Military
  • Week
  • Broke

• I missed singing. I missed performing in a nightclub.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Singing
  • Missed
  • Nightclub

• Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Always
  • Begins

• 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.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Think
  • You
  • Crazy

• 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.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Kids
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Up
  • America
  • House

• I was the rebel in our family and a child of the eighties. That meant going to the mall.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Family
  • Child
  • Rebel

• 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.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Age

• 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.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • Job
  • Black

• And all, but Lust, is turned to dustIn Humanity's machine.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Lust
  • Machine
  • Humanity's

• 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.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Future

• 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.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • People
  • Reality

• It needs more skill than I can tellTo play the second fiddle well.

  

  Charles Spurgeon

• 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.

  

  Livy
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Humble

• 'Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone.'

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Dying

• I have visited the cities and towns across America and seen the devastation caused by the trade policies of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton supported Bill Clinton's disastrous NAFTA, just like she supported China's entrance into the World Trade Organization.

  

  Donald Trump
  • World
  • She
  • America

• Beauty, I believe, comes from God; therefore, there can be no beauty without goodness.

  

  Baldassare Castiglione
  • God
  • Believe
  • Beauty

• I played with Prince in 2010... the America tour. The one with Misty Copeland dancing on top of the piano! But Prince played the piano on that song. But I played two dates with him on that tour. When we played the gig, every couple of songs, Prince would change his clothes.

  

  Jon Batiste
  • America
  • Song
  • Couple

• You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

  

  George Eliot
  • Running
  • Working
  • Horseback

• Let the poet dream his dreams. Yet, the poet must look at the world; must enter into other men's lives; must look at the earth and the sky, must examine the dust in the street; must walk through the world and his mirror.

  

  William Baziotes
  • World
  • Dream
  • Poet

• To me, what the 'Billy on the Street' persona is, is me as a 12-year-old.

  

  Billy Eichner