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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The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
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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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This might sound masochistic or narcissistic, I don't know, but when I'm not playing the game, the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness, in a lot of ways, when I'm not playing.
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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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I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail?
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Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and race relations, creating scenarios so indelible, you swear they are right outside your door.
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I was a bit of a sleeper-inner.
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What does a house want to be?
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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.
