Bill Murray Quotes
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
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I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.
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Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.
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The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I wasn't one of those kids who was chasing the dream and wanted to get to Hollywood because one day I was gonna get my chance and be a big star. I never felt like that.
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We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.
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The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.
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The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government.
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I know how to be sour. I know that taste.
