Bill Burr Quotes
People should be happy to see you when you show up to a club because you're a good person. And stop caring about what the industry is "looking for". Just say what you think is funny. .
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Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.
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The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.
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I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
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I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.
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When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.
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The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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I know this independence is what people like most about my brand.
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When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.
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I suppose if I didn't have Loopt, I'd have to, I don't know, pick up the phone and just start calling people, a lot more texting and certainly more Googling.
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People like to compare something to something that they know. Even with Chris Rock, they say he's like Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy.
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When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.
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I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
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Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.
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On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that this is a brutal business, where even incredibly talented people sometimes never make a living. If you want to chase such a dream, please have a Plan B in place.
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States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.
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Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.
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The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.
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If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.
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I believe that great success is possible in any field - from music to mathematics to macro trading.
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Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did.
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The emotional magnets beneath home and workplace are in the process of being reversed. Work has become a form of 'home' and home has become 'work.'
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People should be happy to see you when you show up to a club because you're a good person. And stop caring about what the industry is "looking for". Just say what you think is funny. .
