Bill Burr Quotes
You have to understand how bad I wanted to be a comedian, how much I loved doing it. I still can't believe I get to do this for a living and have people come up and want to see me.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.
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I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.
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I'm greedy for work, and at times, I wish a month had more days, or the day had more number of hours, so that I could work more. I'm happy to be busy.
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There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one’s sense of what is real.
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Pour tromper un rival l'artifice est permis; on peut tout employer contres ses ennemis.
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It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians.
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There's something so delicious about holding onto a secret; it's something just for you.
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Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
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Here's the thing: Nobody gets extradited for a crime where nobody's been hurt, where no property's been damaged.
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I want to be known simply as a producer who makes music.
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We all share some commonalities with the states we come from and where we come from on the political spectrum. There's a lot of work to be done to make sure we continue to have strong advocacy for these values that we find in the heartland, in red and rural states.
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Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me.
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If Thai citizens still hold this harmony in their hearts, there is hope that in whatever the situation, Thailand will surely get through it safely and with stability.
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I was fired by 'America's Next Top Model' on my birthday.
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When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.
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In Britain, an attractive woman is somehow suspect. If there is talent as well, it is overshadowed. Beauty and brains just can't be entertained; someone has been too extravagant. This does not happen in America or on the Continent, for the looks of a woman are considered a positive advertisement for her gifts and don't detract from them.
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You have to understand how bad I wanted to be a comedian, how much I loved doing it. I still can't believe I get to do this for a living and have people come up and want to see me.
