Bill Burr Quotes

Nothing worse than when a 6 acts like a 10.

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• I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Work
  • Want
  • Change

• I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, and when you get a film adaptation of that game, you've just Xeroxed something twice. I think that's where a lot of the criticism comes from - there are ultra-violent games that are already based on a million films.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Think
  • Game
  • Criticism

• No matter what you do, you're going to have people who have something to say about something you do. You can't please anybody.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • People
  • Please
  • Anybody

• Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Wings

• Beauty,’ Brimstone had scoffed once. ‘Humans are fools for it. As helpless as moths who hurl themselves at fire.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Fire

• Now they can do all these magic things with computers. So you think you get to do something in a movie and you find out you don't get to really do it.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Magic

• What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• I was gonna live with Todd Gill, another young player, and the general manager grabbed me by the collar, put me against the wall and said, 'You're living with a family. Find one,'

  

  Luke Richardson
  • Live
  • Family
  • Player

• Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Joy

• There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Failure
  • inspirational

• A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Vows
  • Relied
  • Unbound

• No behavior can be changed before it's acknowledged. And no addiction is beyond the reach of Love.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Love
  • Behavior
  • Reach

• Inspiration starts somewhere.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Inspiration

• A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise legislature would do the same. It is folly to make laws on subjects beyond human prerogative, knowing that in the very nature of things they must be set aside. To make laws that man cannot and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. It is very important in a republic, that the people should respect the laws, for if we throw them to the winds, what becomes of civil government?

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Children
  • Father
  • Government

• Villa will probably play a lot worse than this and lose.

  

  Alan Parry
  • Play
  • Lose
  • Worse

• I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Father
  • Success
  • Best

• Nothing worse than when a 6 acts like a 10.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Worse