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

• Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Great
  • Write
  • Working

• I think, for any actor, dealing with the paranormal is intriguing.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Think
  • Actor
  • Dealing

• 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

• As I got older, I'd say probably when I got to, like, seventh or eighth grade, I was living in Atlanta, Georgia at the time, and I went for an open call for an agent, a local agent out there, a woman named Joy Purvis, and she ended up picking me up.

  

  David Lambert
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• I believe this artificial intelligence is going to be our partner. If we misuse it, it will be a risk. If we use it right, it can be our partner.

  

  Masayoshi Son
  • Believe
  • Risk
  • Partner

• So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • Earth
  • Light
  • Powerful

• People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the more alive you are. This capacity for caring can illuminate any relationship: marriage, family, friendships-even the ties of affection that often join humans and animals. Each of us is born with some of it, but whether we let it expand or diminish is largely up to us. To care, you have to surrender the armor of indifference. You have to be willing to act, to make the first move.

  

  Arthur Gordon Webster
  • Care
  • Discovery
  • Move

• The British could leave and half India wouldn't notice us leaving just as they didn't notice us arriving. All our reforms of administration might be reforms on the moon for all it has to do with them.

  

  J. G. Farrell
  • Moon
  • Leaving

• 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