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Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place. Billy Crystal

Sex, Reason, Need

The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. Billy Crystal

Book, Eiffel Tower, Your

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that. Billy Crystal

Love, Over, Starting Over

Ali forced us to take a look at ourselves. This brash young man who thrilled us, angered us, confused and challenged us, ultimately became a silent messenger of peace who taught us that life is best when you build bridges between people, not walls. Billy Crystal

Young, Became, Forced

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are. Billy Crystal

Remember, Could, Same Things

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

Influenced, Albums, Dad

One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it became a book, 'I Already Know I Love You.' It was one of those really lovely things in life. Billy Crystal

Love, Waiting, Became

I think it's like a relay race. You run, and you hand over the baton, and your kids pick it up. They take the stuff they want, throw the rest away, and keep running. That's what life is about. Billy Crystal

Away, I Think, About

You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world. Billy Crystal

World, Some, Stage

Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threatening gathering storm. His power toppled the mightiest of foes, and his intense light shined on America, and we were able to see clearly injustice, inequality, poverty, pride, self realization, courage, laughter, love, joy and religious freedom for all. Billy Crystal

Love, Injustice, Religious

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I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving. Billy Crystal

Living, Loving, Going

I still don't love the darkness, though I've learned to smile in it a little bit, now and then. Billy Crystal

Love, Still, Though

To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing. Billy Crystal

Believe, Doing, Need

Since I got into the movies, 'Running Scared,' that did $40 million. 'Princess Bride,' I got good reviews for the character Miracle Max. 'Memories of Me' didn't do well. 'Throw Mama from the Train' did $70 million. 'Harry and Sally' did 95 or 96. 'City Slickers' did $120 million. Billy Crystal

City, Bride, Harry

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love. Billy Crystal

Love, She, Will

Of course my uncle was a giant, but my dad, in particular, had the house filled with these great Dixieland jazz stars, really the best of them: Henry Red Allen, Willie 'The Lion' Smith, Buster Bailey, Cutty Cutshall, Tyree Glenn, Zutty Singleton. These are all big names in the Dixieland world. Billy Crystal

Big, Buster, Allen

Change is such hard work. Billy Crystal

Work, Hard Work, Change

You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back. Billy Crystal

Love, Play, Doing

My parents always looked like they loved being together. That's what I took from them, and that's how my wife and I are. I still feel like we're dating. Billy Crystal

Always, Still, Took

Humans love sex, we need sex, it's how we connect, it reminds us we're alive, it's the third most basic human need, after food and good movie popcorn. Billy Crystal

Love, Alive, Movie

Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar. Billy Crystal

Going, Oscar, Auto

Bambi, to a kid, was scary. Billy Crystal

Kid, Scary, Bambi

I'd like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life. Billy Crystal

Think, Like, Happiest

I could always improvise. Some of my teachers remember me standing in front of the class with a flower on my head, talking about photosynthesis. I'd stop and say, 'Is this working for any of you?' The kids were like, 'What is he doing?' Billy Crystal

Doing, Some, About

What life throws at you - you just have to learn how to hit it, which is a baseball metaphor. The ball's outside, you hit to the right. You don't let them go by. Billy Crystal

Learn, Go, Which

I'd stand on a coffee table, and my cousin Edith would give me dimes, and you put the dimes on your head... And when your forehead was full, show was over. Billy Crystal

Give, Over, Coffee Table

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