Billy Eichner Quotes
I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win. I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.
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I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
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Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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I'm a mental-health advocate big time, so I think it's great when depression is a thing that's discussed out in the open, because it's still way too stigmatized.
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My little boy, West, and my wife, they're my rock and that's the thing that keeps driving me to do better at what I do professionally. There was a time in my career where I had been on this huge roller coaster ride and I'd really got in the spot where I could've hung up it and just been a songwriter.
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Older siblings get more total-immersion mentoring with their parents before younger siblings come along. As a result, they get an IQ and linguistic advantage because they are the exclusive focus of their parents' attention.
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I study my fans all the time, and what I learn from them will definitely be reflected in my future work.
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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win. I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.
