Bill Burr Quotes
You know, it wasn't even that I'm a funny guy, I just loved stand-up comedy and I wanted to do it. It was one of the few things in my life that I knew I was going to be able to do, and I also felt as though I'd be able to do it the way I wanted to do it.
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The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.
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I always have to be writing.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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I am so lucky that throughout my career I've been able to play such different characters.
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As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.
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I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.
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I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life.
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It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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To farm is to be placed absolutely.
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Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
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Comfort is key for me. I'm a bigger guy, so whatever fits is nice, too.
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When it comes to photo shoots, there was a clear moment for me when I thought, 'I'm going to have to enjoy this because it's going to be a part of what I do.'
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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
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The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that.
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Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.
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We're not in the business of taking large operations in the U.S. and moving them overseas.
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You know, it wasn't even that I'm a funny guy, I just loved stand-up comedy and I wanted to do it. It was one of the few things in my life that I knew I was going to be able to do, and I also felt as though I'd be able to do it the way I wanted to do it.
