Jeremy Hardy Quotes
For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good thing, as long as one kind of connection does not have primacy over all the others. Heredity, race and nationhood are not the best criteria by which to judge our fellow humans.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
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I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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I love bayou life.
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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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We need to separate the process of evolution - which is, indeed, a self-serving process - and the actual motivations of animals.
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If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people who hate you for what you are and you're likely to turn into one of those unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the weight of the two hundred political buttons they wear pinned to their coats and knapsacks.
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For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good thing, as long as one kind of connection does not have primacy over all the others. Heredity, race and nationhood are not the best criteria by which to judge our fellow humans.
