Bill Burr Quotes

My career has been a slow burn, so waiting to do the Edinburgh Festival was a smart move. If I'd spent a month there 10-15 years ago, there's no way anyone was gonna remember me.

Bill Burr

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• There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • American
  • Way
  • Medical

• I like deconstructing things. I like cutting the legs out from under something that feels secret.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Like
  • Cutting
  • Something

• There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

  

  Walter Salles
  • America
  • Present
  • Latin

• If it wasn't because of my high heels, I would still be in Coatzacoalcos with 10 children.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Children
  • High
  • Heels

• Nearly all the great improvements, discoveries, inventions, and achievements which have elevated and blessed humanity have been the triumphs of enthusiasm.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Humanity
  • Blessed

• Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Violence

• Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood.

  

  Vernon Howard

• I think that sometimes we put undue pressure on stories featuring people of color, and I hope we get to a point where it's not such a rarity to see a person of color be the hero of a story, so that it can just be a story and not have to carry so much weight.

  

  Jenny Han
  • People
  • Hope
  • Color

• A greater tax deduction for students is not a handout. On the contrary, it helps those who are willing to meet the challenges of higher education to invest in our collective future.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Future
  • Education

• I feel like I have things to say. And that's what I'm looking forward to.

  

  Sean Paul

• The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period.

  

  Billy Beane
  • Business
  • Period

• I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room.

  

  Marie Rutkoski
  • Happy

• I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don't care if they think I'm like someone else because I know I'm not - I'm a total weirdo. I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I'm just trying to sell music and get on with my real life.

  

  Sia LSD
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

  

  Pauline Kael
  • Art
  • Patience

• It takes time to love someone properly, and in this business, you get very wary of people.

  

  Mark Roberts
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• Ideally, I'd love to write poems that intrigued humans across the board: literary folk and academics as well as... dog-walkers, doctors, plumbers, chefs, math professors, jugglers, etc.

  

  Amy Gerstler
  • Dog
  • Math

• I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.

  

  Emmylou Harris
  • Soul
  • Chicago

• Where I'm an outsider is, I'm not a career politician.

  

  Bruce Rauner
  • Career

• Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

  

  Bill Vaughan

• In 'Snow White and the Hunstman,' when we see them in the Dark Forest, you're allowed a lot of freedom to be able to cutaway to, for instance, the prince. That B and C story stuff helps the writing process, even though it makes it a more complicated movie.

  

  Evan Daugherty
  • Movie
  • Freedom
  • Prince

• Nowadays, to be a good world-ranked decathlete, you need to be good at everything.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • World
  • Good
  • You

• The truth is I made a few good movies in the '50s, then went into freefall.

  

  Jose Ferrer
  • Movies
  • Made
  • Free Fallin

• My career has been a slow burn, so waiting to do the Edinburgh Festival was a smart move. If I'd spent a month there 10-15 years ago, there's no way anyone was gonna remember me.

  

  Bill Burr