Bill Burr Quotes

I think it gets uncomfortable when you try to act like you didn't just tell a joke that bombed.

Bill Burr

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• As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • You

• I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
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  • Power

• I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Language

• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Thinking
  • Always
  • Ride

• Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we're trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Work
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• My advice is not always so logical and consistent. But then, love is not logical and consistent. So why should my advice be? If you want that kind of thinking, go to a computer. Computers are always logical and consistent, and you see how often they get proposed to.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Thinking
  • Advice
  • Consistent

• In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Think

• I like to write books that I would have liked as a child, that would have got me thinking and imagining beyond the words on the page. In a way, my audience is always how I remember myself as a child.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Words

• I can remember being at Sandringham, for the first time, at Christmas. And I was worried what to give the Queen as her Christmas present. I was thinking, 'Gosh, what should I give her?'. I thought, 'I'll make her something.' Which could have gone horribly wrong. But I decided to make my granny's recipe of chutney.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find nothing.

  

  Aesop
  • Thinking
  • Gold

• My mind is always going. I'm always thinking what I need to do, what I haven't done, what I did do, what I didn't do as well as I could - I'm relentless that way with myself.

  

  Billy Crystal
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  • Done

• I'm thinking, 'Man, there's this whole other group of people that are attached to me because of my last name and my family's roots.' That's pretty cool. That's special, that's a lot of power and it's important.

  

  Mark Sanchez
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• With 'A Hijacking' I didn't talk to anyone who had been hijacked, but with 'A War,' I talked to as many soldiers as possible trying to understand how is it in Afghanistan.

  

  Pilou Asbaek
  • Trying
  • War

• You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Thinking
  • May

• When I designed 'Flower' I was thinking about making it a positive, almost like a self-healing experience. It's like therapy.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • Positive

• I grew up thinking a bit of pushing and shoving was completely normal. Then I suddenly learned that if you kick another player, you get in trouble. Nobody had ever reprimanded me for that before.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Player

• North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again.

  

  Dave Sim
  • Trying
  • American

• Well, like most black Americans, I grew up thinking I was supposed to be a Democrat. It wasn't even something you questioned or thought twice about. Black equaled Democrat.

  

  Angela McGlowan
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Black

• Never, in the history of the world, has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • World
  • Trying
  • History

• People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie; it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability.

  

  William Goldman
  • People
  • Remember
  • Reason

• I was always a fan of Groucho Marx as a kid.

  

  Michael Feldman
  • Always
  • Kid
  • Fan

• While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love, and meaning, what the religious traditions of mankind have said forms a coherent body of thought... There is recompense for suffering. A principle beyond selfishness is at work in the cosmos. All will be well. I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it is false.

  

  David Berlinski
  • Community
  • Religious
  • Suffering

• I think it gets uncomfortable when you try to act like you didn't just tell a joke that bombed.

  

  Bill Burr
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  • Jokes