Jeremy Hardy Quotes
I love many places to which I have no connection, but identifying an ancestor, or someone I think is an ancestor, has taken me to places I'd never have gone to otherwise.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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I don't particularly get nervous about anything.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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I'm not clever enough or aware enough to make a political movie.
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One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
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I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.
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The Internet was supposed to allow anyone to set up a web page and share their knowledge with the world. But in practice, it's too difficult and takes too long, and almost no one does it.
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
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I want to see genuine talent rewarded.
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I've learned a lot about life besides how to take a punch. And I've taken quite a few in and out of the ring.
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I love many places to which I have no connection, but identifying an ancestor, or someone I think is an ancestor, has taken me to places I'd never have gone to otherwise.
