Billy Eichner Quotes

I've actually enjoyed my time in L.A. more than a New Yorker is supposed to.

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• Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • More

• 'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Show
  • Very
  • Grey

• The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Practice
  • First
  • Building

• Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Great
  • Impact

• We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Changes
  • Ignore
  • Environmental

• Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Money
  • Doing

• We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • Country
  • May
  • Problem

• I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Great
  • Think
  • Hand

• I need to be more consistent about taking care of myself no matter how busy I am.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Care
  • Busy
  • Consistent

• I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Never
  • Wanted
  • Mentor

• Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Time
  • Love
  • Guy

• I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Done
  • Eating
  • Rolling Stones

• Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Deal
  • Regulations

• When Captain America is in a room full of Marvel superheroes, he is always Top Dog, even though his powers are pretty modest. He could be stood next to Thor, Iron Man, whoever. He is the one that everyone looks up to. To me, that is Superman, too. Even de-powered in the Legion arc, he was still Superman. Still Top Dog.

  

  Gary Frank
  • Up
  • America
  • Pretty

• I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Work
  • Men
  • Crazy

• That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.

  

  Halsey
  • Remember
  • Choose
  • Musicians

• Lack of courage or means often deters the European woman from more independent business activity, and this in spite of increasing freedom to choose her occupation, in spite of brilliant examples of successful undertakings of women, in photography, hotel or boarding-house management, dress-making, etc.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Women
  • Business
  • House

• One day, a musician asked me what I did. When I told him I was to be a businessman, he laughed and said, 'You are not a businessman.' Sometimes all it takes is one person to put an important thought in your head, and he did.

  

  Alexander Hanson
  • Important

• The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

  

  Pierre Bonnard

• One can only be in awe of the creativity of chocolate marketers. My take is that if there is a health benefit, it is small.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Small
  • Health
  • Creativity

• I've actually enjoyed my time in L.A. more than a New Yorker is supposed to.

  

  Billy Eichner
  • Time