Bill Burr Quotes
I just do my act. If people in England don't get my joke I make fun of myself for telling it.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
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I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.
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We live in a society where nothing is sacred.
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The martyrologies are catalogues in which are to be found the names of the saints with the days and places of their deaths and, generally, with the distinctive character of their sanctity and with an historic summary of their lives.
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The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
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Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.
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Apple has made this commitment that it's a green company. So how do you fulfill your commitment if you don't consider you have responsibility in your suppliers' pollution?
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There's almost a T-shirt feeling to wearing my evening dresses.
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A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.
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There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than a pessimist.
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Practically everybody knows what it's like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but sometimes it can cripple you and prevent you from doing what you really want with your life. But I have some great news for you: You can change the way you feel.
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I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, 'What am I doing? This isn't who I am, as a man or an artist.' I had to overcome people's belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.
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I just do my act. If people in England don't get my joke I make fun of myself for telling it.
