Bill Burr Quotes

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

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• I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Real
  • Relationship

• Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Good
  • Water
  • Morning

• All of his saves have come in relief appearances.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Come
  • Relief
  • Appearances

• The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

  

  Irving Penn
  • World
  • May
  • Interesting

• If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid out for you.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Attention
  • King
  • Yourself

• What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Nature
  • Never
  • Eternity

• I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Technology
  • Democracy

• I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • See
  • Plays
  • Musicals

• Negroes could be sold - actually sold as we sell cattle, with no reference to calves or bulls or recognition of family. It was a nasty business. The white South was properly ashamed of it and continually belittled and almost denied it. But it was a stark and bitter fact.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Family
  • Business
  • Bitter

• If I go to Hollywood, I will have to start all over again – which is fine and makes me humble.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Start
  • Humble
  • Hollywood

• If all the world and love were young,And truth in every shepherd's tongue,These pretty pleasures might me moveTo live with thee and be thy Love.But fading flowers in every field,To winter floods their treasures yield;A honey'd tongue, a heart of gall,Is Fancy's spring, but Sorrow's fall.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • World
  • Live
  • Heart

• James Baldwin is probably the biggest influence on me from a literary perspective.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Perspective

• The thing is, I'm a competitor by nature. I like to compete.

  

  Danny Gokey
  • Nature

• It was very punk rock for me to take a stab at working with Justin Bieber. I don't know how people portray that, or 'Climax,' for that matter. But for me, it was the most adventurous thing I could have done at that exact moment.

  

  Ariel Rechtshaid
  • People
  • Done
  • Rock

• Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.

  

  Sheryl Crow
  • Music
  • Experience

• There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Live
  • Real
  • Drama

• I'm very comfortable with an R-rating. I feel like it sounds like what people talk like in real life; I think it's more real to me.

  

  David Dobkin
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Thinking
  • Running
  • Brain

• In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • World
  • Great
  • Done

• My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • She
  • Grandmother
  • Racism

• I was trying to be 27 at age 47, but God had to get rid of my vanity. I had trouble letting go of the old Lex physically. My human fleshly nature didn't want to let go of what had come to be billed as 'The Total Package.' I guess God had to help me get rid of the last remnant of that vanity and pride.

  

  Lex Luger
  • God
  • Trying
  • Help

• Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Action
  • Blood
  • Adversity

• It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews.

  

  Monica Bellucci
  • Political
  • Jesus
  • Situation

• Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

  

  Bill Burr