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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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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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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People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.
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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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Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?
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I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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And I do pay a lot of attention to how things feel underneath my feet. It's a way of transporting yourself somewhere that you're trying to write about - closing your eyes and imagining what it feels like to literally be in that space. Maybe because of this weird aura thing I find it a bit easier to put my body in an imaginary space.
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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.
