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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Write
  • I Can

• 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.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Great
  • Power

• 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.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Important
  • Live
  • High

• Each is responsible for his own actions.

  

  H. L. Hunt
  • Own
  • Actions
  • Responsible

• 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.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Always

• For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Music
  • Know
  • Me

• 'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Die
  • Would
  • Carousel

• My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • May
  • Friends
  • Road

• The love received is the love that is saved.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Love
  • Saved
  • Received

• I don't really get recognised very much.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Very
  • Much
  • Recognised

• 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!

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Language

• 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.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Mind
  • Father
  • Parents

• In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Sometimes
  • English
  • Speak

• 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?'

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Why
  • Wonder
  • Creation

• Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Great
  • School
  • Tradition

• I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Football
  • Player
  • Football Player

• I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Black
  • Intelligent
  • Short

• I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Why
  • Wish
  • Day

• My mother did not have a toaster oven and would toast bread in the oven, which I thought was stupid. They didn't do cars and electricity, that kind of stuff.

  

  James Turrell
  • Mother
  • Stupid

• People in tech love to see their work as embodying the 'hacker ethos': a desire to break systems down in order to change them. But this pride can often be conveyed rather clumsily.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • People
  • Work
  • Desire

• It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • People
  • Bad
  • Feels

• 'That 's eight times to-day that you 've kissed me before.''Then here goes another,' says he, 'to make sure,For there 's luck in odd numbers,' says Rory O'More.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Luck

• I like the two worlds coming together in the Internet space, which is so up for grabs... It all struck me when I heard about Twitter and Instagram, how it's like notes you pass in class. If someone's passing you a note, you really should be doing something else, and instead you're like, oh, 'What are you doing?'

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • Together
  • Me

• We don't like mystery. You like mystery, 'cause it's not a mystery to you; you know when you're gonna get laid.

  

  Bill Maher