Jimmy Carr Quotes
It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing.
Quotes to Explore
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.
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You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.
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Everyone Instagrams all the people they are with. I get that it's part of the job. But there's a point where it's like, 'Can't you just be a person and have a separate life to your job?'
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I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.
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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed if necessary.
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My first project was to build an ionization gauge control circuit for Professor Edgar Everhart's Cockcroft-Walton accelerator. In those days, vacuum tubes were the active components in electronic circuits. I can still recall the warm orange glow of the vacuum tube filaments and the cool blue glow of the thyratron tubes.
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It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing.
