Bill Burr Quotes
As much as Metallica rocked, they always had these song names... 'The Thing That Shouldn't Be'. 'The Chair That Wasn't There', you know?
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I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.
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Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.
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The kind of person who's going to stand on the red carpet and love the attention and have the big grin - I'm just not like that. I want to get in there, do what I've got to do, and get home to my kids.
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Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.
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I know why jobs go, and I know why they come.
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Any time you're a poster child for the CIA, there are a lot of people that are - either have ideological or they are mentally unbalanced - that are going to try to find you and perhaps cause you harm.
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You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
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I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me.
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I'm virile, vigorous, and potent!
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Carbon pollution contributes to climate change, which causes temperatures to rise. Hotter temperatures mean more smog in the air, and breathing smog can inflame deep lung tissue. Repeated inflammation over time can permanently scar lung tissue, even in low concentrations.
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I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.
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Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.
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Mothers are the only ones that think nothing is beyond their control when it comes to their children.
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Everything I do comes from the clubs. If I lose that, I'm done.
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The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.
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We ourselves are not something apart from our circumstances. What we are and where we are are one and the same.
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If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.
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The reality is that fulfillment, success and all of these good things comes from trying to help those that we care about to achieve those things. How can I help somebody I care about find the job they love? How can I help somebody I care about find happiness in their work? And when we commit to service it actually biologically and anthropologically is more likely to lead to our own success and our own happiness.
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As much as Metallica rocked, they always had these song names... 'The Thing That Shouldn't Be'. 'The Chair That Wasn't There', you know?
