Billy Eichner Quotes
I learned early on that 'Billy on the Street' is a great lesson in 'Don't judge a book by its cover.'
Quotes to Explore
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
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But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
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Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.
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The simple things in life make me very happy.
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The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.
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I'm not going to let anyone tell me that I can't perform, that I'm not artistic.
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The writers who have been serious about recreating American literature have always been far and few between. What we do have at the end of the 20th century that we didn't have at the beginning, at that time of the Lost Generation of rich white boys, is a mixture. We're now getting gay writers of color, let's say, and women of color being published. This is unprecedented.
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Elvis was a great guy. We'd just horse around together or go to see a movie. He drove me around Graceland in a golf cart. He was a fan of our music and was curious about how I sounded so black.
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I learned early on that 'Billy on the Street' is a great lesson in 'Don't judge a book by its cover.'
