You start realizing that maybe you're the one night a month that people have out, and they don't need to hear your political views or how dark you can get. They just want to laugh for an hour and go home. Once I wrapped my head around that, my act evolved accordingly.


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Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
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I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves. 'Cause I'll always miss her wherever she goes. And I...
BILLY CORGAN
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.
BILLY JOEL
What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the ...
BILLY CORGAN
The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's grea...
BILLY EVANS
Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threat...
BILLY CRYSTAL
I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.
BILLY CONNOLLY
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attai...
BILLY CORGAN
When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and fam...
BILLY BALDWIN
No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our chil...
BILLY GRAHAM
When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn...
BILLY IDOL
I had all kinds of allergy problems with certain meats, and with fruits and vegetables with pesticid...
BILLY CASPER
I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and fre...
BILLY COLLINS
I can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. It's an amazing feeling.
BILLY CRYSTAL
I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
BILLY IDOL
The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new mor...
BILLY GRAHAM
Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little...
BILLY GRAHAM
Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.
BILLY MITCHELL
Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get do...
BILLY GRAHAM
There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for tel...
BILLY CRUDUP
We've got to use every piece of data and piece of information, and hopefully that will help us b...
BILLY BEANE
The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other ma...
BILLY GRAHAM
I know my voice has a limited range of motion; I don't write dramatic monologues and pretend to ...
BILLY COLLINS
Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
BILLY SUNDAY
No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, an...
BILLY GRAHAM
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
BILLY WILDER
Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declar...
BILLY GRAHAM
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
BILLY GRAHAM
Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being pe...
BILLY GRAHAM
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
BILLY GRAHAM
I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. I...
BILLY CORGAN
I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.
BILLY GRAHAM
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something...
BILLY JOEL
I love Aerosmith. I love Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, anything from that era, Led Zeppelin. So my guita...
BILLY UNGER
I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.
BILLY GRAHAM
God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns mad...
BILLY GRAHAM
Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of c...
BILLY CONNOLLY
As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of '...
BILLY GRAHAM
I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or...
BILLY GRAHAM
The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...
BILLY GRAHAM
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
BILLY GRAHAM