Bill Burr Quotes

I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.

Bill Burr

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• In order to survive in a dangerous neighborhood, Israel has always needed to be more than tough. The country has always needed to be smart.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Country
  • Smart
  • Tough

• For me as an actor, I find it's most creative when I'm bringing myself into the role rather than putting the role on. I feel like it's more of a cathartic experience.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Experience
  • Myself
  • Creative

• There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who never make it, there are lots of great writers who don't get published - is it still worthwhile? Aren't we glad people are still doing it?

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I want it all - and I would like it delivered.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Want

• I don't think anything happens without the press, one way or the other. I think it's all done for it. You saw it start, really, with Martin Luther King in Birmingham. He did the bus thing. And I don't think anything that followed would have happened if the press hadn't paid attention.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Attention

• As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of mind) disturb the peace of the mind. The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Water

• The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Opportunity

• For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Rock
  • Star
  • Constitution

• I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Image
  • Drugs

• It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked.

  

  D. V. Ager
  • Stories
  • Students
  • Fossils

• Be happy with who you are, where you are, for this is the way.

  

  Joe Sacco
  • Happy
  • Way

• The legal subordination of one sex to another - is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a system of perfect equality, admitting no power and privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Sex
  • Privilege
  • Disability

• Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Interesting
  • Effort
  • Struggle

• Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Part
  • Narcissism
  • Pawned

• I was on 'Melrose' at a time where we had to all go home and be there at the same time when the show was on, or set your VCR. But that was a big thing, and people of my generation still talk about that. They remember where they were, at what point of their lives that show came, and then talking about it the next day.

  

  Laura Leighton
  • People
  • Time
  • Home

• If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Trust
  • Miserable

• Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Hell
  • Hungry

• As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Want
  • Voice
  • Tools

• I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Misery
  • Miserable