Bill Murray Quotes

My first movie, I got nominated for a Canadian Oscar-for Meatballs. For MEATBALLS. And who am I up against? George C. Scott. So he wins the award and I stand up and go, 'That's it-let's get the hell outta here.'

Bill Murray

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• Meatballs
• Canadian Oscar

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• No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.

  

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• The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

  

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• The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.

  

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• On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.

  

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• In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

  

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• All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

  

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• Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.

  

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• Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Two
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• Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

  

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• The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.

  

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• I never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me – and it was such a backhanded compliment – they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'

  

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• When I was a kid, I wasn't making my choices based on anything other than 'Did I want to work that day?' or 'Did being in school sound more fun?' And I don't remember ever reading a script and thinking, 'Is this going to be a fun part to play?'

  

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• I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

  

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• I love Kate Winslet, Rachel Weisz, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench as well. They're all wonderful and they're very inspiring.

  

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• The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.

  

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• I'm a normal guy.

  

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• 'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.

  

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• First ladies, you know, we look at Michelle Obama, and we look at most first ladies, and they seem like they have it all. You know, they live in the White House, they go to state dinners, they ride on Air Force One, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. But first ladies do often feel that they are given short shrift or forgotten or left at the margins.

  

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• I'm very genetically blessed; I cannot deny it, but I work hard at keeping myself together. Yes, I have nice cheekbones and skinny legs, but I can't take any credit for it.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
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• If you are creative, you get busier as you get older.

  

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• My first movie, I got nominated for a Canadian Oscar-for Meatballs. For MEATBALLS. And who am I up against? George C. Scott. So he wins the award and I stand up and go, 'That's it-let's get the hell outta here.'

  

  Bill Murray
  • Movie
  • Meatballs
  • Canadian Oscar