Billy Eichner Quotes
I always want to lead with comedy but hopefully be able to sneak my message through at the same time.
Quotes to Explore
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.
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I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
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In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
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My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.
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I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty - the perception that as you grow older, you 'lose your looks,' which I think is diabolical.
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Too many leaders are so caught up in the momentum of work that they lose sight of the opportunity to connect with people. I discovered that the more fully present I was with other people, the more fully present they were with me, and the more productive our relationship became over time.
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Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
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I sort of consider myself a Nigerian who spends a lot of time in the U.S.
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I always want to lead with comedy but hopefully be able to sneak my message through at the same time.
