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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Almost everyone who's been to primary school in Britain has had towels put on their heads to play the shepherds in the nativity play.
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I feel good. I wanted to go ahead and do everything, but the eyes were on me and told me not to. I just hit and took it easy, then did the running, which turned out OK.
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I did loads of auditions and I didn't get called back. I still get giddy at all the people I get to work with, and I'm still enjoying the work and enjoying life too much that I don't feel like I've done that much.
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If you go into a bank or a shop and you want them to believe that you're going to shoot them, that's an acting exercise. If you want to turn to someone else who's as tooled up as you are and persuade them to put their knife down because you'll use your knife, that's an acting exercise. Nine out of 10 delinquents are frustrated actors.
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Life throws many curve balls, and if you don't swing... you're never going to hit any!
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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.
