Billy Wilder Quotes

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

Billy Wilder

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• Tell the truth.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Truth
  • Tell

• I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Children
  • Telling

• Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Thought

• A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Great
  • Truth
  • True

• Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • American
  • Funny
  • Nobody

• Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Life
  • Creative

• My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Fear
  • Social

• Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • People
  • Idea
  • Nothing

• Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.

  

  Karen Kain
  • People
  • Love
  • Remember

• A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Know

• I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Up
  • Great
  • Small

• I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Thought
  • Envy

• The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Shadow
  • Over
  • Fast

• This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • People
  • Plan
  • Terrorism

• I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • People
  • Embarrassed
  • Hobbies

• I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • People
  • Popular
  • Said

• Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Words
  • Simple

• Conservation is important... water comes at a cost.

  

  Enda Kenny
  • Important
  • Water

• I love England and I love English culture, particularly English pop culture.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Culture
  • England
  • Particularly

• We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget.

  

  Cliff Stearns

• If you're not in someone's face, they're not going to remember you. So get yourself back into an acting class; get a coach. Do those things you did when you were 20 and wanted it so bad.

  

  Jake Busey
  • Remember
  • Bad

• If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

  

  Billy Wilder
  • People
  • Truth
  • Funny