Billy Crystal Quotes

No disrespect to Sweden: I didn't think of them as the comedy universe.

Billy Crystal

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ThinkUniverseDisrespectComedy

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Maxwell Maltz

ChangeDecisionHabitBehaviorNew

There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

TodayFootballTeamLiteratureRadio

People on series are now given a lot more opportunities, sometimes more than film actors.

Alyssa Milano

PeopleOpportunitiesNowSometimes

I took the role because it's rare to read a script that makes me laugh and cry, and it spoke to my own religious feelings, as well as giving me a chance to draw on my experience as a parent. Accepting it was a no-brainer.

Stephen Collins

ExperienceMeChanceParentLaugh

Not everybody goes to government to serve themselves and not their country.

Ruben Blades

GovernmentCountryServeEverybody

I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.

Mary Gordon

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I grew up in Brownsville; most of the kids I grew up with went to jail, not Yale. If they had heard of Yale, they thought it was a lock to pick.

Mitch Leigh

ThoughtJailUpLockKidsMost

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

IntelligenceLanguageBattleAgainst

In whatever work environment, whether we admit it or not, there is always a little part of us that has been or will be tempted by a lifestyle for the wrong reasons.

Dominic Cooper

WorkEnvironmentWrongAdmitWill

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

Diana Gabaldon

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For us, since we entered the MCU as storytellers, and we picked up the story with 'Winter Soldier,' we've been carrying a thread forward from that point, a narrative thread.

Anthony Russo

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You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

Antony Jay

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