Christopher Monckton Quotes
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When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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I got a manager, and I thought, since I was going out on auditions, I should do this for a living. Then there was this moment on set when I realized I was having a lot of fun, and I really wanted to do this forever.
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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.
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With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
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Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
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Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.
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How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government; and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.
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I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.
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I grew up in Brownsville; most of the kids I grew up with went to jail, not Yale. If they had heard of Yale, they thought it was a lock to pick.
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America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.
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The best possible preparation for the future is a well lived present.
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If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.
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Radiative transfer calculations I can do standing on my head.
