Bill Burr Quotes

There's a big thing right now with people using stand-up as a scapegoat. People think comedians have the power to change someone in an hour. If we had that ability, the art would not be legal. It would too dangerous.

Bill Burr

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• I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.

  

  Ina Garten
  • People
  • Home
  • Night

• He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Light
  • Never

• I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Point
  • Horrible

• Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Life
  • Art
  • Education

• I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.

  

  Campbell Newman
  • Political
  • Accountability

• Th’ dead ar-re always pop’lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an’ refuse to help his fam’ly, all in wan night.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Help
  • Night
  • Society

• Without even saying anything, just his eyes... It’s not like he forces you to do it, but the power that he has, it’s something in his spirit. It’s almost like intangible and kind of magical. He has an energy that kind of lifts you. Any doubt that you had is just gone. You just do it – it’s really simple. It was so easy to work with him.'

  

  Alison Lohman
  • Work
  • Power
  • Energy

• As a child growing up in refugee camps, life taught me that many things were impossible. My older sister, Claire, taught me otherwise when her strength and resilience made the impossible possible in the way she worked, behaved, and took control of our lives.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• My friends are not in the industry - they're young artists or knitwear designers or whatever.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Friends

• There's one thing we all share: We eat to nurture ourselves, to feel stronger.

  

  Alek Wek

• Dexter-Land is a dark and scary place, and I couldn't live there permanently. To be honest, I don't think I even want to visit.

  

  Jeff Lindsay
  • Live
  • Dark
  • Scary

• I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • Good
  • Wish
  • Hero

• Not everything is for sale; not everything is about money.

  

  Martin Bouygues
  • Money

• I'm a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, 'cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Life
  • Different
  • Professional

• My favorite singer is Ella Fitzgerald.

  

  Brian J. Smith

• Filmmaking, I often like to say, is like Russian roulette. You never know what you'll get. The only thing you can do is find solace in the fact that, irrespective of the film's response, you work hard to make the money you do.

  

  Ajith Kumar
  • Work
  • Money

• Having a child with someone, you're always going to be respectful of that. But the song 'I Bet' was honestly inspired by my life experiences - I can't just say it's from one experience.

  

  Ciara
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Song

• When you're reinterpreting the same material eight shows a week, it's impossible to lock in the 'ideal' performance. Things that felt great in previews can feel forced three months in; jokes that got big laughs in the rehearsal room may suddenly fall flat in front of a paying audience.

  

  Andrew Keenan-Bolger
  • Great
  • May
  • Fall

• Yesh Atid is a Jewish, religious-secular party. Our DNA is center - both Left and Right. The difference between center-left and center-right is more emotional and hereditary than having to do with what people think about the Palestinians.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Think
  • Party

• I think novels are profoundly autobiographical. If writers deny that, they are lying. Or if it's really true, then I think it's a mistake.

  

  Amity Gaige
  • True
  • Mistake

• Our profession is built on the bedrock of trust - the trust that must inherently exist among Soldiers, and between Soldiers and their leaders to accomplish their mission in the chaos of war. Recent incidents of sexual assault and sexual harassment demonstrate that we have violated that trust.

  

  Raymond T. Odierno
  • Military
  • Leader
  • Soldier

• There's a big thing right now with people using stand-up as a scapegoat. People think comedians have the power to change someone in an hour. If we had that ability, the art would not be legal. It would too dangerous.

  

  Bill Burr