Jimmy Carr Quotes
As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk.
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Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.
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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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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
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Connecting with people is not hard. I love the interaction and the feedback after shows. It does take some time, but the fans appreciate it which makes it worth it.
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Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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We're not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and Michael Jacksons of the world, but rather assisting infertile couples that deserve the right to have a biological child to have one.
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I don't expect people who've enjoyed 'Spy Kids' will enjoy 'Repo! the Genetic Opera!'
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As we develop, I just see us following our heart on this musical journey.
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I don't hate redheads! The millionaire men - wealthy men - never pick them. Every time I offer them they say no. I could say the most gorgeous redhead in the world and they'll say no, they don't want it. Now if you ask an Irish guy in Ireland, he says 'yes,' because that's indigenous to that country.
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Really, I'm only alive out of curiosity. I'm very curious about where we're all marching.
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As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.