Bill Maher Quotes
I want to thank some very special people without whom I would not be here today. George Bush, Sarah Palin and the Pope. When I came to Hollywood in 1983, I had one dream- to sleep with Jodie Foster. That didn't work out, but this is nice, too.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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Love is more than one thing.
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Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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As a 17-year-old, I remember positively dreading dance sequences. I would come to shoots, quaking with nervousness at the idea of making other artistes do retakes due to my mistakes.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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All the sounds of the earth are like music.
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I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
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I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
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I just lost interest in performing.
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I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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I used to consider myself as great as a pyramid, and now I realize that I am only a shadow that passes.
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I'm in favor of people getting in where they fit in. Wherever you feel you can make the greatest contribution, you should.
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People are so afraid of hearing "No" that they often don't even try. You have nothing to lose by just asking! A good friend of mine once told me, "Harv, a closed mouth won't get fed." Open your mouth! Say something if negotiations aren't going the way you'd like.
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I'm the most ambitious person you ever met.
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Everybody right now, they look at the current technology, and they think, 'OK, that's what artificial neural nets are.' And they don't realize how arbitrary it is. We just made it up! And there's no reason why we shouldn't make up something else.
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I want to thank some very special people without whom I would not be here today. George Bush, Sarah Palin and the Pope. When I came to Hollywood in 1983, I had one dream- to sleep with Jodie Foster. That didn't work out, but this is nice, too.
