Bill Maher Quotes
Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
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I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
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I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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I've been incredibly lucky. I've worked in two iconic shows, 'Carry On' and 'EastEnders.' If it all ended tomorrow - and it could - I'd just be terribly grateful. I've been fortunate enough to do what I love and get paid for it.
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They hate whom they fear.
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Learning difficulties are a cover for rich parents with dumb kids...That's why 'Pinch' Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, is alleged to have dyslexia - because he's retarded.
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Cannes is a circus, so you have to have fun with it. Everything suddenly becomes funny. And the promotion of a movie - that's where you really need to be a good actor. You need to make journalists believe that what you're saying is just for them and you've never said it before, even when you're talking about the same film over and over again.
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The boarded-up homes, the decaying storefronts, the aging church rolls, kids from unknown families who swaggered down the streets - loud congregations of teenage boys, teenage girls feeding potato chips to crying toddlers, the discarded wrappers tumbling down the block - all of it whispered painful truths.
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Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids.
