Jimmy Carr Quotes
I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.
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I'm not ashamed to say I love television. I put the TV on, and my brain switches off, and I just sit there for a few hours.
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I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.
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Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.
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It's just the absolute bomb. Ghost in the Shell was really good, it's a little bit more recent.
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I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.
