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I never had those hang-ups. I mean, I think the people that were concerned, maybe your agents and things had those things, but I never knew.


Billy Eckstine

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BILLY JOEL What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the ...
BILLY CORGAN The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's grea...
BILLY EVANS Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threat...
BILLY CRYSTAL I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.
BILLY CONNOLLY In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attai...
BILLY CORGAN When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and fam...
BILLY BALDWIN No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our chil...
BILLY GRAHAM When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn...
BILLY IDOL I had all kinds of allergy problems with certain meats, and with fruits and vegetables with pesticid...
BILLY CASPER I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and fre...
BILLY COLLINS I can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. It's an amazing feeling.
BILLY CRYSTAL I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
BILLY IDOL The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new mor...
BILLY GRAHAM Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little...
BILLY GRAHAM Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.
BILLY MITCHELL Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get do...
BILLY GRAHAM There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for tel...
BILLY CRUDUP Everybody wants to be a better version of themselves - everybody. And I hope one day I can lose some...
BILLY GARDELL I like those older theaters - the acoustics are perfect, I mean, you just have that feel of there...
BILLY GARDELL We've got to use every piece of data and piece of information, and hopefully that will help us b...
BILLY BEANE The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other ma...
BILLY GRAHAM I know my voice has a limited range of motion; I don't write dramatic monologues and pretend to ...
BILLY COLLINS Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
BILLY SUNDAY