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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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
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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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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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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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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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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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Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
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Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.
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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.
