Jimmy Carr Quotes
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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This love is silent.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.
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CEOs shouldn't worry about their budget all the time - on a day-to-day basis, they should work on managing their company, building an awesome product, developing key relationships, identifying distribution channels, etc.
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Christ, he was paranoid about criticism. I used to say: why doesn't he worry about the team and forget what people are saying? He got Phil Thompson, who was a kid coming through when I was a Liverpool player, to have a go at me. So now I don't talk to him.
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A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.
