Chris Elliott Quotes
I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
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I'm not a great one for looking back.
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People love teen movies because everyone can relate.
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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Getting a family into work, supporting strong relationships, getting parents off drugs and out of debt - all this can do more for a child's well-being than any amount of money in out-of-work benefits.
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Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am. For an artist, it's a great place to be.
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I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.
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I ain't good looking And my hair ain't curls But my mother she give me something It's going to carry me through this world.
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I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.
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So many I considered, closest to me,turned on a dime and sold me out dutifully,although that knife was chipping away at me,they turned their eyes away and went home to sleep.
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The national Log Cabin Republicans are ridiculous. They’re not conservative at all. I don’t even think they’re gay - they’re bi (partisan). GOProud is comprised of real conservatives who happen to be gay. (Same with the Texas LCRs, for whom I’ve been signing books for years.)
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A new principle cannot be put into effect without bringing with it new mistakes. But we may, however, be convinced that the laws of life - to which belongs the law that suffering follows the misuse of freedom - will finally be able to bring everything within its right limits.
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When you're a child, the most important thing is to be able to live a life of comfort. You want to be sure that the moon goes up at night and the sun comes up in the morning and dad comes home from work.
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The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.
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Pinchas Perry, the director of 'The Chicago 8,' offered me the role of the judge, and he did not know that, 35 years earlier, I'd played a judge in the theater production. So life has its own little twists and turns.
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It's interesting - I think superheroes get much more unfair derision. There are so many good superhero books being done. Science fiction is almost more reputable, I guess, at least a step up from poor superheroes.
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So I can go and let out everything that I feel about every bogus weekly cover, every single bogus skit, every single rumor and barber shop-everything that people feel is ok to treat celebrities like zoo animals, or act like what they're saying is not serious, or their lives are not serious or their dreams are not serious.
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When you watch the subtitled version you are probably missing just as many things. There is a layer and a nuance you're not going to get. Film crosses so many borders these days. Of course it is going to be distorted.
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Σάφ' εἰδότας χρὴ τῶνδε θυμοῦσθαι πέρι·τὸ γὰρ τοπάζειν τοῦ σάφ' εἰδέναι δίχα.
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I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.
