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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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 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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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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I started out as Keith Mitchell. I had done probably about ten years of television work under that name. Then my grandfather passed away in 1984. I wanted to honor him and his name.
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Britain's way of dealing with disability is just to try and pretend it's not happening. A swift sweep under the carpet.
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There's nothing tantric about my particular view on life.
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'The Dictator' - well, that was just a comedy, and I suppose the morality was incidental. It was just something to try and make people laugh rather than being a serious thing.
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Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.
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Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.
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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
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The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.
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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?
