Bill Burr Quotes
There is no reason to hit a woman. And I was just like, really? I could give you, like, 17 right off the top of my head.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
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You can't change the market; the market just is.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.
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The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
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I love playing sport.
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The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
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There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.
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The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can turn up later as characters, whether you intend it or not.
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I want to expand and not ignore the late 20th-century additions to filmed entertainment.
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Being short works for me.
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I think there are a lot of different things that dreams do for the individual and they're fascinating because it's not totally known what they do, but we have some science that is opening the door to a new world as we speak.
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I love L.A. for the beach and stuff, that's the reason I live here.
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I can't give other people what I've not experienced to some extent myself. It sharpens your game and also, like any athlete, you're more fit because you have to be. You're getting ready because you have a reason to.
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There is no reason to hit a woman. And I was just like, really? I could give you, like, 17 right off the top of my head.
