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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Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in a short period, let us say 20 years, and you don't have a well-developed private sector, entrepreneurial class, then central planning is important.
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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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Most devices have been hacked in some way and are part of - part of a botnet network that can come after you in DDoS attacks.
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I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest.
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I realized that even though I had this urge, this longing, to write about other people, in order for it to be emotionally gripping, I needed to be in there somehow.
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Socialists do not propose to substitute the domination of society by one privileged class for that of another. They seek to abolish class distinctions altogether. The abolition of classes is fundamental to the Socialist conception of society.
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'Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level.
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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.
