Bill Burr Quotes
When I was coming up the DC Improv was considered the best Improv out there. It's always been high quality stuff coming out of there.
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People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to get and how it's going to affect you. The people in the hospitals don't always have time to help you understand it.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
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I'm pagan.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.
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Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
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I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
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I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.
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America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.
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I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.
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I play to see what I can accomplish. I don't play for fun. I play to see how good I can be.
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I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.
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I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.
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I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be in show business!
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It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
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Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence. What was important was that the attempt to write stories kept her straight on the dividing line between truth and fiction. If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar.
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The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.
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There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.
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When I was coming up the DC Improv was considered the best Improv out there. It's always been high quality stuff coming out of there.
