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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I do not read newspaper comics unless they happen to be out when I visit my parents, but I follow several online comics, which I check every morning while I drink my coffee and wake up for the day.
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I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.
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In the mind of the public, the word 'planet' carries a significance lacking in other words used to describe planetary bodies... many members of the public assume that alleged 'non-planets' cease to be interesting enough to warrant scientific exploration.
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If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect. We won't know what to fight for.
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The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do.
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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.
