Billy Crystal Quotes

Dad had a music store, and he'd often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.

Billy Crystal

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Passion and true passion is actually very unpredictable. It heads in unexpected directions because it's constantly seeking out new challenges. But what's really interesting is that passion ultimately is necessary for sustained extreme performance improvement.

John Hagel III

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I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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It's fun to watch a show that you can watch with any member of your family, and you're going to laugh, and you're going to be moved, and you're going to have fun, rather than this dark, brooding, cold, 'purely procedural show.'

Dean Devlin

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Play fair, okay?

Colleen Haskell

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It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.

Clyde Tombaugh

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No matter the challenges ahead, I will never stop fighting for New Jersey and the values we share.

Bob Menendez

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I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.

Bobby Riggs

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There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.

Bong Joon-ho

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That's right; I was watching 'From Russia With Love', one of my favourite Bond movies, and suddenly thought that I'd love to see a version of this from Tatiana Romanova's point of view. Or, better yet; what if she was the hero? What if this was her story, and Bond was just a side character?

Antony Johnston

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Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

Susan Cain

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Motown wasn't just pioneering a sound but a cultural dynamic.

Suzanne de Passe

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I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.

Sylvester Stallone

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