Bill Murray Quotes

You know how funerals are not for the dead, they’re for the living? Bachelor parties are not for the groom, they’re for the uncommitted.

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• I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and injuries.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Journey
  • Challenges
  • Face

• The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Great
  • Play
  • First

• So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Time
  • Practice
  • Now

• I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • School
  • College
  • New York

• I just think something about being in front of a live audience when you've finished a big dance that you've been working on for so long - I don't think anything can really beat that.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Long
  • Live
  • Dance

• When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • People
  • See
  • Islamic

• When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Focus
  • Goals
  • Economy

• I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Kid
  • Shot
  • Wrist

• I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Up
  • More
  • Down

• Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Writing
  • Heaven
  • Acting

• In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Beautiful
  • Me
  • Crowded

• I'm somebody who listens to a lot of funk, a lot of James Brown, and I want to be somebody who contributes all that energy to the mainstream.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Want
  • Energy
  • Brown

• My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Up
  • Learning
  • Style

• I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Myself
  • Holiday
  • Thanksgiving

• We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Government
  • Entrepreneur

• It wasn't until after the reduction that in the lab work, the pathology, that they found that I had DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ) in my left breast. I was very, very lucky because DCIS is basically stage-zero cancer. So I was very lucky.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Work
  • Cancer
  • Lucky

• Anymore cutting and the movie would be as silly as cutting a condensed Reader's Digest novel.

  

  Charles Willeford
  • Movie
  • Cutting
  • Silly

• If you keep sugar apart from us, we cannot have experience of its sweetness. If we eat it, then only we know its taste. A man cannot get Mukti if he simply repeats 'Rama, Krishna, or Govinda' for a thousand years. He must repeat it heartily (knowing the secret).

  

  Bhagawan Nityananda
  • Experience
  • Repeat
  • Sweetness

• ..because in this way the form will be perfect and not reduced, which is the worst thing that can happen to a figure.

  

  El Greco
  • Perfect
  • Happens
  • Reduced

• You know how funerals are not for the dead, they’re for the living? Bachelor parties are not for the groom, they’re for the uncommitted.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Living
  • Dead
  • Funerals