Bill Murray Quotes
The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.
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I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.
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I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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I can only control what I can control.
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I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way.
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I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
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It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities 'job killers.'
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.
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The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.
