Bill Burr Quotes
I've had a great time on the road, I would say shooting guns with a silencer in Jacksonville, Fla.
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What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.
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I've never been strong with my time-management skills.
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We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
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I've never been a movie buff. If I did go to a theatre to watch a film, half the time, I would fall asleep.
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It's very seldom that we see the good of the South. There is a perception that Southerners are racists and everyone else in the nation is 'enlightened.' There is racism everywhere, and there is good everywhere.
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I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I'm the perfect example of what people can accomplish when they have regained a sane body and spirit.
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I've been working in theater, really, since about 1965. I started working with the Mabou Mines about then, and in a way I've always worked in the theater, but it's never been a main part of my work. And it wasn't until Einstein that I kind of shifted into high gear with theater, working with Bob, with Bob Wilson. And since then I find it a very attractive form to work in. It's just an extension of my work.
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I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.
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Did you really think I would be this excited about college if I thought I'd be leaving my girl behind?
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I have healthy disagreements with political parties I'm not aligned with, but I don't think it should be to the point where we're cursing and trying to strangle each other.
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Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
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I hate to tell you, but it's not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill and there have been other scandals as you know that have been more than simply naughty e-mails.
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If you have a diverse workforce, then you have a much better chance of picking up on things that a lack of diversity would hide from them.
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You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.
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The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom.
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We've had a couple momentum shifts throughout the course of the year, and this is what we've been talking about as a group - we want to build the momentum, because now is the time to do it. We've shown signs of this - the Houston game at the end of the road trip.
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Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes I could say anything and it would get a laugh. Then I'd better deliver. In the movie it's the same thing. You get a lot of laughs when people first sit down and then the story better kick in. Many years in front of an audience, I would hope, give me a sense of what works.
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This is my sadness for shooting my friend
