Brad Williams Quotes
When you talk about modern comedy I think there's a big three right now, and that's Louis C.K., Bill Burr, and Jim Jefferies. I don't think anyone's doing it better than those three guys.
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It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.
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Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
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As long as I have a heartbeat, I'm fine. So I just do what I love, and I do it the best that I can. And if it all goes away, I'll just start over.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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When I get the ball with my back to goal, I like to be in touching contact. I need to feel the guy. He will try to take the ball, and I will go past him.
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We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.
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I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.
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After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.
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I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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People say, 'You look like the girl who used to be on that show 'Angel' - they don't actually think I'm her.
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As for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them.
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My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.
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I was working part-time as a cleaner while I was going to college and then babysitting after school.
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I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.
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When I was 8 years old, I saw 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.
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I don't think there's an actor in the world who ever expects to get a call from the 'Star Wars' casting director - least of all me.
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The young are really the heirs to a generation of incompetence.
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I don't have that kind of Southern experience of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy.
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I am attracting a new audience now, one that is more open and more spiritually inclined.
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After being accused of bribery (patronage jobs in exchange for being able to name candidates for District Attorney and City Controller) by Democratic City Chairman Peter Camiel, and being challenged by the Philadelphia Daily News to a lie detector test with himself, Commerce Director Harry Belinger, and Camiel, Rizzo accepted and said, "if this machine says a man lied, he lied." After the machine showed that Belinger and Rizzo were lying and Camiel was not, and he was asked about what he thought of lie detectors, he said, "that machine is full of crap.
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When you talk about modern comedy I think there's a big three right now, and that's Louis C.K., Bill Burr, and Jim Jefferies. I don't think anyone's doing it better than those three guys.
