Bill Maher Quotes
I'd like to protect children, too, but… is everything worth sacrificing to that? I mean, drugs have done a lot of good. … They've midwived a lot of good ideas… lot of great songs, you know? I think 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. … I think Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. There, I said it.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
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Most British cheeses are now vegetarian and are labelled accordingly. However, French and Italian manufacturers still tend to use rennet.
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I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.
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I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.
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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
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I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
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Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic.
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The whole point of justice consists precisely in our providing for others through humanity what we provide for our own family through affection.
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'Baskets' isn't a CBS show. Nothing against that, but this is an off-kilter show on cable that the channel lets you do interesting things. Look, if it works, it works. And if it doesn't, it's just a miniseries.
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I'd like to protect children, too, but… is everything worth sacrificing to that? I mean, drugs have done a lot of good. … They've midwived a lot of good ideas… lot of great songs, you know? I think 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. … I think Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. There, I said it.
