Jimmy Carr Quotes
If I'm at home for the weekend - and that is almost never - I tend to get twitchy at about eight o'clock in the evening because my body clock is timed to go on stage. I don't know what to do with myself.
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I am a Zionist.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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Gags die, humor doesn't.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
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I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.
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I am really addicted to music.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with.
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A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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I think it's fantastically narcissistic to believe that in the entire universe, with all of the planetary systems that we've already discovered and the countless others that are out there, that we are the only forms of life.
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I shouldn't have to worry any time my father walks outside the front door of our home.
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If I'm at home for the weekend - and that is almost never - I tend to get twitchy at about eight o'clock in the evening because my body clock is timed to go on stage. I don't know what to do with myself.
