Bill Burr Quotes
I was certified to take x-rays, but you can't just show up and start cleaning people's teeth.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.
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Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
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Shorts wager on price declines by selling shares that they have borrowed in the hope of buying them back at far lower prices.
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Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
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I don't have to show that I am working very hard.
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Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.
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When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life.
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Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.
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Devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever.
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If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.
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The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
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The principal did not like the fact that the teachers would take my side. I always left an impression when I left the school - not for who I was but for what I did there.
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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
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Young writers take themselves very seriously in college.
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My efforts to prevent closing of the gold window-working through Connally, Volcker, and Shultz-do not seem to have succeeded. The gold window may have to be closed tomorrow because we now have a government that is incapable, not only of constructive leadership, but of any action at all. What a tragedy for mankind!
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I was certified to take x-rays, but you can't just show up and start cleaning people's teeth.
