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
  • Law

• 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

• 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

• 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

• We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

  

  Peter Agre
  • Dad
  • Bible
  • Christmas

• Keep God first, chase your dreams, and everything will pay off.

  

  Jacob Latimore
  • God

• In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.

  

  Martin Ryle
  • Work

• I grew up in society when lots of things were hidden, and they were not hidden just one way, but it was very complicated.

  

  Peter Sis
  • Up
  • Society

• The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after. It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find. Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Book

• In every election homophobia has been part of the landscape and in every campaign I've been able to become connected enough to my constituents that they know who I am and that I can be elected on my merits.

  

  Kathleen Wynne

• The Golden Rule works like gravitation.

  

  Charles Fletcher Dole
  • Golden Rule
  • Gravitation

• 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