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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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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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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A general problem with much of Western theology... is that the God portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy, much less a universe.
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I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.
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I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.
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In a one-hour documentary, you can tell maybe ten stories. That's how the documentary is structured. I wrote to forty of the greatest historians of both African and African-American history, and hired them as consultants. I had them submit what they thought were the indispensable stories, the ones they felt this series absolutely had to include.
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Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
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We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule.
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The first few weeks of joining Weight Watchers, you're just finding your feet.
