Bill Burr Quotes
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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I think I need security.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
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I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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As America's nuclear strategic monopoly faded, the United States sought to create advantages elsewhere, notably in the peaceful cooperation between the United States and communist China under Deng Xiaoping.
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A lot of my family are redheads, but I'm a dark blonde.
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The Conservatives are a confusing lot. They first denied climate change was a serious issue and then suggested strengthening the nuclear industry as a solution to it. They oppose the European Union, but support joining North American Free Trade Agreement, despite its obvious failure.
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I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.
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The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
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You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.
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When I tell people there are three stories in 'Thunderstruck' that were from the same wrecked novel, they want to guess what they are. Nobody has. There are no characters or timelines in common. They're structured very differently. A good novel wouldn't have pulled apart so easily.
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When NBC bought USA and SCI FI in 2004, Jeff Zucker put me in charge of USA Networks. We did a lot of research to find out what was working and what wasn't, and we actually had to hear a lot of things we didn't like. USA was predictable; it was boring.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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I never owned a suit until after the election. I got married in jeans and boots. My wife and I, when we went to prom, I was in a pair of jeans.
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I'm not easy to live with. My wife is a saint.
