Jimmy Carr Quotes
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Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.
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The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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I was very rebellious.
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There's a lot of buying power from the Middle East. Girls from Dubai want to be able to wear Asos, and you have people travelling all the way to the States just to go shopping.
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The government should move towards supporting aspirations and not entitlement. Subsidies supporting non-productive growth should be reduced.
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I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
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'Vice Squad' needed to be real if it was going to have the impact that I wanted it to have.
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I have donated money to campaigns. And I have been known to take to the street in protest. But I am more committed to my immediate politics than general politics.
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When I got the role in 'Homeland,' it really opened something up. Other people respected me more as an actor, doors were opened, and I understood for the first time that it wasn't personal. All that rejection wasn't personal.
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When I was a teenager, me and a couple of my friends entered a couple of modeling competitions just for fun, and one of those got me an agent in Sydney.
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.
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I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.
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My mom, Cheryl, worked two jobs to support me. She really helped the family stay together.
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Property is a nuisance.
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Gardening is not something to get on your high horse about or be overwhelmed by. Either you enjoy it or you don't.
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As early as 1993, members of bin Laden's group had been planning an attack on the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.
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You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.
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It's sad that because I have one friend who is in the public eye, just being seen out together once means we're romantically involved. But I don't take it seriously, and it doesn't really affect me much.
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The first few weeks of joining Weight Watchers, you're just finding your feet.
