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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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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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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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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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've still got a small fitness and conditioning business where I travel round the world doing stuff for individuals and corporations, mainly fitness training.
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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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The first thing that Black Lives Matter had to do was remind people that racism existed in this country because when we had Obama, people thought we were post-racial. That was the debate. Is racism over? And very quickly, we understood that it was not over.
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There was no pretense to objectivity; 'Time' had a partisan Republican point of view, and if it was one not shared by many of its gentrified Ivy Leaguers, few felt the compulsion to quit.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.
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It seems like Weezer has gotten better and better at getting attention for everything besides our music. Part of that is just the nature of our culture now - you really have to scream to get some attention, so people even know you have a record out that they might want to listen to.
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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.
