Bill Murray Quotes
My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they're misunderstood. I don't think people realize how kind New York people are.
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I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.
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Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.
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Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
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I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.
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Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
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I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.
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When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
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People realised this is real pollution; it is not fog. Now everyone has to face the data and come out of their comfort zone.
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The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the '60s is only relegated to the South.
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It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'
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There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway.
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I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'
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Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.
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When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in.
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I understand why war is not popular, but I also know this: The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice. That's why NATO continues to be indispensable. That's why we must strengthen U.N. and regional peacekeeping, and not leave the task to a few countries.
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If we don't succeed on the climate change agenda, we risk getting feedbacks that undermine everything else.
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My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they're misunderstood. I don't think people realize how kind New York people are.
