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Bill Maher

(1956) Screenwriter United States

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Bill Maher is a screenwriter from the United States, best known for True story.

Quick Facts About Bill Maher

Born: January 20, 1956
Nationality: United States
Profession: Screenwriter
Notable works: True story
Known for: New Rules, When You Ride Alone You Ride with bin Laden, The New New Rules, Religulous, Politically Incorrect

About Bill Maher

William Maher is an American television host, comedian, actor and political commentator. Known for his political satire, he is the host of the HBO political talk show Real Time with Bill Maher (2003–present) and podcast Club Random (2022–present). He previously hosted a late-night show called Politically Incorrect (1993–2002) on ABC and Comedy Central.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award Richard Dawkins Award star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special

Quotes by Bill Maher · Page 36

Being politicians, they all got to sharing their personal stories. Obama talked about his mother's battle with cancer. Harry Reid talked about…

Battle

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I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.

Another man

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“We preach about capitalism and the beauty of unfettered market forces determining price--but not when it comes to gas. When it comes…

Beauty

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New Rule: If you can force a woman to look at a sonogram—to see what will happen if she has an abortion—you…

Abortion

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“For months in the fall of 2001, our highways looked like a county fair on wheels. "Look out, Al-Qaeda---patriot on board!" I…

9-11

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It's so easy to demagogue the issue and make someone who speaks out against the internal-combustion engine sound like an insane communist,…

Combustion

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It's supposed to be a good thing that he's got this dialogue started. To me, I think, I just took away something…

Communication

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I'd like to protect children, too, but... is everything worth sacrificing to that? I mean, drugs have done a lot of good...…

Children

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There is no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore.

Moderates

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That's ended, that's over. I want you to meet my pimps. I thought, I'm a show-business ho already, so I might as…

I want you

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If we stopped calling it profiling and started calling it "proactive intelligence screening" or "high alert detecting", people would be saying "Well,…

Calling

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Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the 'will of the people' goes out the…

Assisted suicide

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Stupidity is not another form of knowledge.

Form

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The President said that Gold told him to invade Iraq. You see that's what happens when you mix New Testament and Old…

Bible

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George Bush says, 'Gore's book needs a lot of explaining.' Of course, Bush says that about every book.

Book

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[George W. Bush] has balls. And he's a leader. Unfortunately his balls and leadership are in the service of shitty ideas. We…

Balls

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One of the reasons I still do stand-up is because it was so hard in the beginning that I feel like it…

Feels

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The idea that I hear from the right wing in the last few decades, is that any sort of sacrifice is an…

Affront

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The public is gullible. ... If [many satirists are] making the same joke, that's the danger. Then there's a solidifying effect and…

Danger

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Anyone who is elected mayor of a place called "Sin City" is allowed to be a drunk.

Cities

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“Of course, we in the West like to pat ourselves on the back and say we're more tolerant, and we are--but tolerance…

Acceptance

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I don't want to start a movement that mirrors religion. I don't want to create the church of the non-believers where I'm…

Believer

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