Bill Maher Quotes
Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.
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I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
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I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
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I think my acceleration is very good. That's the key for me.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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Certainly, Continental has taken advantage of pipe and sponsored pipeline projects where we could. As a historic shipper, we have put a lot of oil on pipe. We have over half of our oil on pipe coming out of the Bakken. We feel good about that.
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It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.
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The statement that I made and that I think I will continue to make is that racism and bigotry isn't just relegated to the Southern region; it permeates the history of our nation. It's not to say that we haven't made progress. Obviously we have with our first African American president, and I never thought that would happen in my lifetime.
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I see potential in everything. It's about opening your mind to what you can do to the garment: because they're cheap, you can cut them or stitch them, and if you stuff it up, it's fine - it's only two dollars.
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One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.
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This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer.
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A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
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I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life.
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We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there's enough room for all of us to succeed.
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We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity is meaningful, profound, worth living and dying for.... If we devote our lives to frivolity, the world will be a far, far better place. Humanity will be better able to fulfill its primary goal, that of having a good time.
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Scientists generally are really chicken about getting involved in some kind of dispute. As a broadcaster, I find it very difficult to urge them, if it is a controversial subject. They don't want to have science being portrayed badly.
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The American work ethic is something to be admired. Our workforce, regardless of position, works hard to produce the best product and serve customers to the best of their ability.
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Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.
