Bill Burr Quotes
If you're away from your house for a month, by the time you come back there's someone else living in it.
Quotes to Explore
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.
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I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.
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Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
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'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Sense8' have enjoyed great success all over the world.
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A lot of times, I don't just do juice; I do the whole thing blended to keep the fiber.
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Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.
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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
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The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.
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I guess I always leaned to the theatrical.
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I say that religion isn’t about believing things. It’s ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.
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The junk-bond era has also spawned something that calls itself New Historicism. This seems to be a refuge for English majors without critical talent or broad learning in history or political science. ... To practice it, you must apparently lack all historical sense.
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As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems to be simplified. The voice of a woman poet would, I was sure, have precluded such distortion. It did not exist.
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You can decide what you want to eat for dinner, you can decide to go away for the weekend, and you can decide what clothes you’re going to wear in the morning, but when it comes to artistic things, there’s never a rhyme or reason. It’s, like, they just happen. And they happen when they happen.
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I was an only child and I had a mother and father who were just - there wasn't a straight man in the house, and I mean that in a very nice way. They were fun, and we would laugh a lot.
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I've got a great family and a beautiful house. I feel very lucky as far as my lifestyle is concerned. I'm not really interested in fame and all its trappings.
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The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark.
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If you're away from your house for a month, by the time you come back there's someone else living in it.
