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Like when I finally got away from the east coast for a while, and I came back there was just this underlying anger that I never noticed before, because I was born there and just dropped right into it.

Bill Burr

Being a stand-up comic, this isn’t a stepping-stone for me; it’s what I do, and this is what I’m always going to do. And even if I do a TV show, the only reasons to do a TV show is to get more people to know me to come out to my stand-up shows.
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People Shows Stones Television
Surround yourself with positive people. Also, be a positive person. Root for people. Somebody else’s success is not your failure.
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People Roots Surround Yourself
I never wanted to spend a month away from my life. One time I was out on the road for three weeks in a row and I when I came back someone had broken into my apartment and the water had evaporated from the toilet.
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Broken Three Water
Do you know how many times a week people ask me why I’m yelling?
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People Week Yelling
When I was coming up the DC Improv was considered the best Improv out there. It’s always been high quality stuff coming out of there.
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Coming Out Quality Stuff
London was like that too. It was that time of year when all the rich kids with the oil money have their cars shipped over.
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Beautiful Country Jobs
Gold diggers are the wife beaters of men!
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Gold Men Wife
Don’t be a jerk to other comics and don’t let the business beat you down, stay positive and if you work your ass off you’re going to get somewhere.
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Ass Jerk Positive Stay
I do enjoy them. I get to meet the next generation of comics and help them out. Big comics doing small shows was something that used to happen a lot more back in the day. I wish there was more of that.
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Generations Next Wish
You’ll be laying there fantasizing about sleeping on a futon. There’s no risk when you go after a dream. There’s a tremendous amount to risk to playing it safe.
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Fantasizing Play Safe Sleep Tremendous
Deny your emotions and act like you have answers
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Answers Emotion Like You
Well probably the coolest show of that whole tour was in Germany. I had a chunk of material on [Adolf] Hitler, and I was worried about how they’d react, but they loved it.
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Coolest Country Shows Worried
I’ve had a great time on the road, I would say shooting guns with a silencer in Jacksonville, Fla.
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Great Gun Shooting Time
I was certified to take x-rays, but you can’t just show up and start cleaning people’s teeth.
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People Rays Teeth
I was painfully shy when I was younger but at some point you’ve gotta grow up. I think the genius in the man-boy thing is you tap into a woman’s motherly instincts.
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Boys Growing Thinking Up
You wanna know how you know you’re informed as a protestor? They don’t show your interview on TV.
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Interviews Television Shows

Like when I finally got away from the east coast for a while, and I came back there was just this underlying anger that I never noticed before, because I was born there and just dropped right into it.

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Like when I finally got away from the east coast for a while, and I came back there was just this underlying anger that I never noticed before, because I was born there and just dropped right into it.

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