Bill Burr Quotes

Being a comedian is an incredible thing, but it can be scary sometimes.

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• Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Up
  • High
  • Small

• When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Friends
  • Conversation
  • Open

• With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Earth
  • Research

• You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I'm a tough, heroic figure, but I'm a sensitive pussycat.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Me
  • Idea
  • Tough

• To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Care

• It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?

  

  Adam Brody
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Date

• The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Fall
  • Minutes
  • Stamina

• Instead of abandoning competition and giving banks protected monopolies once again, the public would be better served by making it easier to close banks when they get into trouble. Instead of making banking boring, let us make it a normal industry, susceptible to destruction in the face of creativity.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Giving
  • Better
  • Creativity

• Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Change
  • Only
  • Inevitable

• People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Sound
  • Test

• It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Up
  • Job
  • Funny

• We are convinced that locking Russia out of Europe is not rational.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Europe
  • Russia
  • Rational

• Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Treasure

• All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Good
  • Respect
  • Good Deeds

• I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Want
  • Everything
  • Just

• Because of network neutrality rules, activists can turn to the Internet to bypass the discrimination of mainstream cable, broadcast, and print outlets as we organize for change.

  

  Patrisse Cullors

• The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.

  

  Pierre Bourdieu
  • Work
  • Important
  • Culture

• I never had planned for my life and my career.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Life
  • Career
  • My Life

• I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • Thinking
  • Eye
  • Certain

• If you said 'Boo' to me, I wouldn't sleep for two weeks! I don't like scary movies.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Sleep
  • Scary

• When doing a series, I look for something that has an idea you can think about, something that I'm noticing and aware of and thinking about, because when you're doing a series, you think about more than just jokes... you know, when you're doing a comedy, you think about what's going to reflect people's experiences, in a way.

  

  Darren Star
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Comedy

• Being a comedian is an incredible thing, but it can be scary sometimes.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Scary