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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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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Win pretty, win ugly, just win.
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I'm really inspired by stories I didn't know about.
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The money between the first pick and the 10th pick - that's a big difference! That's like a $10-million-dollar difference.
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I try not to lie to people - the only way to control the way you're perceived is to tell the truth.
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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.
