Bill Burr Quotes

If you try to deliver a funny line in a funny way, it comes out as wacky and you ruin the scene.

Bill Burr

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• I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Childhood

• But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Responsibility
  • Enjoy

• I do not consider myself beautiful.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Beautiful
  • Myself
  • Consider

• A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Ideas
  • Sound
  • Differences

• I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

  

  C. J. Box
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Life
  • World
  • Death

• I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • School
  • More
  • Physics

• Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Love
  • Clothes
  • Luxury

• A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - human beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually says that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Political
  • Child
  • Slavery

• Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Knowledge
  • Now
  • Become

• 'Love Story' I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Story
  • Love Story

• I'm proud of everything I do, but I think I'm the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Proud

• I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Character
  • Change
  • Name

• Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • People
  • World
  • True

• In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Death
  • Dying

• Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Society
  • Law
  • Moral

• Red is a colour I’ve felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it’s one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level. Of course, it is the colour of the interior of our bodies. Red is the centre.

  

  Anish Kapoor
  • Up
  • Red

• Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic cannot be content to have faith, but must be in search of God all the time, and in the dialogue with others, a Catholic can learn more about God in a deeper fashion.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Time
  • Great
  • God

• The music industry is a very rough industry. Many years ago, I think it was even rougher in the sense that a lot of it was predicated on image.

  

  Jennifer Holliday
  • Music

• I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last.

  

  Alan Ladd
  • Life
  • Good
  • Long

• In order to cooperate in the material worlds as agents of a divine power, the spirits temporarily have a material body. By the work required in their corporeal lives, the spirits improve their intelligence and, by observing God's law, they acquire the merits which will lead them to eternal happiness.

  

  Allan Kardec
  • Body
  • Spirits
  • Merits

• Stress is not so much what you do, but how you react to what you do.

  

  Dean Ornish
  • Stress
  • React
  • Do

• Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Long

• If you try to deliver a funny line in a funny way, it comes out as wacky and you ruin the scene.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Trying
  • Scene
  • Lines