Jimmy Carr Quotes
I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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My father had very little formal education.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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They always say, 'Time heals.' But it really doesn't. You just get used to it. I live life with the mentality of 'OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.' So going forward, anything bad that happens can't be nearly as bad as what happened before.
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The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.
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You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.
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Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to think again.
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Life is too short to dust every week.
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My father was a very big musical influence on me. He was a trumpet player. And that's what I started with. Then, when I was 7, my parents introduced me to the piano.
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In a way, he lost some of himself, some of his knack, and therefore some of the choices he might have had in life. But in losing those, he gained so much more freedom, so much more power, that he was clear winner in the bargain.
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I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books.
