Bill Burr Quotes
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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I'm lucky because I don't like being in the sun a whole lot, just because the repercussions for me - I feel it, I go very red.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
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The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
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There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.
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Grace can and does have a history.
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The idea of critical windows extends beyond just vision, of course: almost every system in the brain has a critical window when it needs to experience certain stimuli, or it won't get wired up properly. The most obvious example is language: if you don't learn a language early on, it's nigh impossible to become truly fluent.
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Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You could easily argue that the writing is the key ingredient that makes 'Jeopardy!' so great.
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We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
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The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process.
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Nobody scares me.
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News isn't even the truth on television.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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A lot of people will look at you and will fail to see your beauty because you're covered up and they're not used to it. So growing up, I just had to work on my people skills and give people a chance to really know me besides the clothing.
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The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.
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Do you know how many times a week people ask me why I'm yelling?
