Jimmy Carr Quotes
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'
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I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
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Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.
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I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.
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Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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O most merciful Father, put far from me all my iniquities and all my offences; so that, by Thee made whole in body and in soul, I may be accounted worthy to approach the Holy of holies.
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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
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Every year is beautiful, and I try to appreciate each moment in my career, but 30 was definitely one of my best.
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Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
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I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.
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When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.
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I really do feel like I'm in a generation where women are empowering and supporting each other. It's so amazing to feel a part of that.
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The years lay spread out before her, spacious untouched canvases on which she was presently going to paint the picture of her life. It was to be a very beautiful picture, she said to herself with an extraordinary feeling of proud confidence; not beautiful because of any gifts or skill of hers, for never was a woman more giftless, but because of all the untiring little touches, the ceaseless care for detail, the patient painting out of mistakes; and every touch and every detail was going to be aglow with the bright colours of happiness.
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Women were quite terrifying until I was older. I think that's partly down to confidence.
