Jimmy Carr Quotes
They say the people most affected by the credit crunch are pensioners - well, let go of the handbag then, Nanna.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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A girl's best friend is her pride.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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What really kills me—it really rips me up—is when people think I’m abrasive, inconsiderate or ungrateful because I don’t go outside in a bikini and wave to the paparazzi. Come on!
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The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.
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Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
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While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in his book - I didn't have to live with Don, and I think that made a big big difference.
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We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.
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They say the people most affected by the credit crunch are pensioners - well, let go of the handbag then, Nanna.
