Bill Maher Quotes
We don't like mystery. You like mystery, 'cause it's not a mystery to you; you know when you're gonna get laid.
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
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Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.
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Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.
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Each is responsible for his own actions.
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I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.
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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
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'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.
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My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
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The love received is the love that is saved.
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I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.
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I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.
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I don't really get recognised very much.
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When you get your opportunities, you've just got to go with what they said... I'll do what's necessary wherever they put me.
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I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!
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My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.
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In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.
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Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation of Israel?'
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Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.
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I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.
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To us, there was Bob Dylan, and there was dad. As for what he meant to other people, that was never glorified in our house. There were no accolades there, no gold records.
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Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's 'fiscal stimulus' and it sounds like a good one to me.
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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
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We don't like mystery. You like mystery, 'cause it's not a mystery to you; you know when you're gonna get laid.
