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 acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going.
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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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I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
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The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.
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You know, I think what people want more than anything is they just want people to do what they say they're going to do.
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I estimate a very conservative number of 25,000 dead homeboys. If 25,000 white people were killed in two decades of urban drive-bys, you could imagine there would be prime time television, there would be counseling, economic packages, truces would be negotiated by diplomats with experience in Northern Ireland or the Balkans.
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The hope is that we'll continue to create jobs for the vast majority of people. But if the situation arises that this is less and less the case, then we need to rethink, how do we make sure that everybody can make a living?
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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.
