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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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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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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Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.
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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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New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.
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Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.
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Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can shift the whole system to a higher order.
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I think the world sort of looks to the kids who have potential. These are the kids who are going to do something with their lives, who are going to do something for the world. I don't think it's malicious, but the other kids get lost from that point on.
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The first few weeks of joining Weight Watchers, you're just finding your feet.
