Billy Eichner Quotes
Things pop out of people's mouths that you wouldn't expect them to say, so I've stopped trying to guess ahead of time who might be interesting to talk to.
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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I like things simple.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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I want to be an activist professor.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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We want to thank (the service members) the only way we know how that's by playing rock 'n' roll.
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It's illegal to be gay in Little Rock - this is such a reality for so many people, but once people get to these bubbles of New York or L.A. or Boulder, Colorado, they forget.
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It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
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Some women just skip having babies or adopt because they don't want to get fat or they haven't put in the time to find a partner. It's great to adopt, but a lot of adoptions are motivated by vanity and laziness.
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But at my back I always hear. Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie. Deserts of vast eternity.
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Things pop out of people's mouths that you wouldn't expect them to say, so I've stopped trying to guess ahead of time who might be interesting to talk to.
