Go Read Bill Murray Got Surprisingly Sentimental at His Kennedy Center Honors
Just sharing some quickies that I believe my fellow Dems would enjoy:
“It’s kind of a great night to be here in this goofy, funny town,” he said. “The other night, I was in the Blue Room of the White House—they didn’t know I was there. I was looking out the window, and you see the monument, and you see the memorial right out the window, and your heart just leaps. And you think, Oh, God, it’s real. This is real. It’s something you can touch. It’s not just the stones, it’s the idea of America. It’s the idea that the best of us try and get it done every time we wake up. If you have a good morning, you’re probably going to have a good afternoon.”
He went on: “There’s this little trampoline that’s inside of you that bounces. It’s something that makes you care. It makes you care about other people. It makes you care about yourself. It comes to you, it lands in you, and then you bounce it back out to other people. It’s always coming to you, and you can just keep bouncing it out. Look at each other. Look at who we are. Look at how we are all together here right now. Alive. That’s pretty good, right?”
He thanked Ethel Kennedy for the prize, and recounted going with his father to hear President John F. Kennedy speak in Chicago, his hometown.
Brian Doyle Murray linked his brother to Mark Twain in a story about playing pool at the Player’s Club in New York. The Murray brothers were drinking, smoking, and shooting when Bill Murray grabbed Mark Twain’s pool cue down from the wall display. A nervous bartender told him to return it; Bill obliged, but only after lightly poking everybody in the room with the cue. “I think Mark Twain would want me to do this first,” he said.
“As much as I’ve dreaded this, there is love,” Murray said in closing. “And I love you.” Then he sang “Sweet Home Chicago.