David Mitchell Quotes
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My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event.
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Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.
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Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
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The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
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I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.
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I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere.
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When I started training to fight, it was more out of boredom than anything. I was looking for more things to do. I started with boxing, and my coaches told me I had a lot of potential and that I should consider making it a career. I was like, 'Whatever.' I was just 15 at the time, and I never imagined something like that.
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We are strong supporters of First Amendment rights, and we believe free speech is a two-way street. While anyone is free to be an anti-Muslim bigot, on campus or off, CAIR is free to challenge their bigotry by speaking out against the promotion of hatred and intolerance.
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Real Texans believe in looking out for each other. We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy.
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The whole European Federal plan is ridiculous. We are patriotic. The single currency is an outrage. We want the Queen's head - or the King's head, if we have a king - on our own coins.
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The one show that I will continue to be a guest on is 'The Daily Show' with Jon Stewart, if he'll have me. It's not competitive with CNN and it's too much fun.
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It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
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In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
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The fashion cycle is outdated.
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
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Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
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I'm not one to be like, 'What is everybody doing? Let me do that!' I just do what I want.
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As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.
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I feel like a lot of niggas in the rap game ain't do what I did in these streets and a lot of niggas in the streets ain't do what I did in the rap game. I still feel like a lot of people don't feel where we come from.
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.
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If Trump publicly commits to embrace science, stops threatening censorship of the Internet, rejects fake news and denounces hate against our diverse employees, only then it would make sense for tech leaders to visit Trump Tower.
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I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.
