Bill Maher Quotes
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
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I don't think of things globally myself, but I kind of would like to think of things where they are tangible and here. Then I can grasp that concept.
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We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.
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I think the US has the right to have its own national security policy. I think most Americans would agree with that. And therefore clarity on this issue is important and especially if we commit ourselves, explicitly and bindingly, to Israel's security.
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A lot of people get emotional in movies that are cartoons, but not in TV shows.
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When I wrote the words and I have the music, I felt, wow, you know, this has got to be right. I got to sing it right.
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Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
