Doug Stanhope Quotes
The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.
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I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
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Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order.
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A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
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If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
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The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.
