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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Your art is the Holy Ghost blowing through your soul.
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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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Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain.
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If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.
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I think, in some ways, I like it when people tell me what they're thinking. I would rather have it that way than masquerade as if you're totally unbiased and objective.
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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Look at these ISIS people. These people are ruthless. They don't operate by any sort of normal civilized code. That's the world. There's a shadow world that exists out there.
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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.
