Billy Eichner Quotes
If you're pretty, you want to be ugly. If you're loud, you want to play quiet. You always want to challenge people's expectations.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.
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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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I was very aware of performers who have a persona, whether it's Siouxsie Sioux or Patti Smith or Lydia Lunch, and I'm just this middle-class girl coming from a more conventional upbringing, this California person. But in a way I felt like it's important to represent the normal.
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Rubberband man, wide as the teleband9 on my right, .45 in my otha hand
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I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.
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This just looks like the oil and gas industry are shamelessly using the tragedy of Katrina and Rita to try and push their special-interest agenda through Congress. We need to address our energy needs, but we don't need to jeopardize our environment and economy to do it, and we shouldn't use a national tragedy as cover for bad policy.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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If you're pretty, you want to be ugly. If you're loud, you want to play quiet. You always want to challenge people's expectations.
