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Billy Wilder Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: June 22, 1906 - March 27, 2002

Topics

Funny Truth People You Tell Going

'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

Me End Short Look Three Squad

I have certainly seen my share of the world as it really is and not how I wish it would be.

World Wish I Wish Share Seen Would

'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish I could write like that. It helped that my models as a writer were dead over a hundred years before I began to write.

Great Me Expectations Wish Important

Breast cancer is thought to use cholesterol to help the cancer migrate and invade more tissue.

Thought Help More Cancer Tissue Use

People of color grow up steeped in 'white' culture. The reverse is not true. And, no, listening to hip-hop on the way to work does not count as immersion.

Work Culture People Listening Color

When I was 11, I went to space camp at the Space Center in Texas, near where I grew up. There, I met video-game-industry pioneer Richard Garriott, better known to gamers everywhere as 'Ultima' creator Lord British.

Steve Jurvetson

Space Texas Better Up Lord Gamers

Everyone does a style book, and I wanted to write a business book for people that didn't think they would like a business book.

Business Style People Book Think

If you ever go to Temple Square in Salt Lake City, if you stay there long enough, you'll see a homeless person standing in the middle of their nice, beautiful square, holding out a cup for change. And the Mormons don't ever ask him to leave.

Change Beautiful City Homeless You

A lot of kids spent more time out of school than in, but I always loved school and thought it was my way out of Cleveland, and out of poverty.

Time School Thought Loved Poverty

Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.

Power Men Me Society Believe Rest

I never really liked Italy. 'Lots of cement' is my long-standing quote.

Never Quote Italy Cement Really

I don't sit around with my friends and talk about money, ever. On a record, that's different.

Money Friends Talk Sit Different

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