Bill Maher Quotes
Religion, it stops people from thinking because they think all the answers are in that one book; it impedes progress; it justifies crazy people. Flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
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Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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'You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist.' - Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, January 14, 1991
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And how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
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While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in his book - I didn't have to live with Don, and I think that made a big big difference.
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Whereas in the past people have seen the two sexes as almost incomprehensibly different, now there is a group of people that are explaining the connections between both the genders, literally in the way their biology informs some of their expression.
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Religion, it stops people from thinking because they think all the answers are in that one book; it impedes progress; it justifies crazy people. Flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative.
