Bill Burr Quotes
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Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.
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I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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I can't wait to get my face lifted but my husband says, 'No, don't do it.' I think if it makes you feel better, go for it, but it would be nice if it looked good. There are a lot of people out there who are disasters and you think, 'Why did you do that?'
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski -
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.
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I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.
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No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
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I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the gospel be preached, he would suffer less harm. For when there is no battle for the gospel it rusts and it finds no cause and no occasion to show its vigor and power. Therefore, nothing better can befall the gospel than that the world should fight it with force and cunning.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it's women who throw their underwear at me when I'm performing live. My male fans tend to be quite shy. My female fans are wild. I never know what to do with all the lingerie that lands at my feet. Maybe I should open a shop.
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I enjoy collaborating with other people.
