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.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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I like deconstructing things. I like cutting the legs out from under something that feels secret.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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If it wasn't because of my high heels, I would still be in Coatzacoalcos with 10 children.
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Nearly all the great improvements, discoveries, inventions, and achievements which have elevated and blessed humanity have been the triumphs of enthusiasm.
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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood.
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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.
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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.
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I feel like I have things to say. And that's what I'm looking forward to.
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The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period.
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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.
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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.
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It takes time to love someone properly, and in this business, you get very wary of people.
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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.
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I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.
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Where I'm an outsider is, I'm not a career politician.
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.
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Winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence density, between two regions of earth.
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I have no boyfriend. No time. None send me over the moon, so I just kind of do my thing.
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SM Seaside City Cebu: soon to be the Philippines' Largest Mall and the 4th Largest in the World
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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.
