Billy Eichner Quotes
Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn't finding my way in, I knew what I had to do. I knew I had to keep working at it and keep putting material out there, even if no one was paying me for it.
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.
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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
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War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
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I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.
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I'm totally myself.
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Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.
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Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say, Laura Bush had that much effect on the Bush administration. She certainly, you know, seems to be a nice person who I think the public likes. But I can't really put my finger on any huge impact she's had.
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Since I come from an educated background, I love to study.
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I cook. I walk. I go to the movies. I meditate.
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I didn't even realize I was writing songs - I thought I was just being witty and sarcastic.
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Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before: I cannot say what loves have come and gone, I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.
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That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.
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We are ready to be criticised by any journalists because we know we are not perfect.
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I have to stay on top of myself with honesty and be very forthcoming, quickly admit when I'm wrong, you know? I have a whole system that works for me, and that's part of my worldview now.
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One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish.
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I have a tendency toward being a micromanager.
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I used to pull rank and wait until the wind was blowing out.
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Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn't finding my way in, I knew what I had to do. I knew I had to keep working at it and keep putting material out there, even if no one was paying me for it.
