Eric Idle Quotes
Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off the bat, as soon as they can speak or be naughty.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.
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If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.
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When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And I've been pegged as 'ethnically ambiguous.'
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I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.
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Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
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I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.
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I'm not part of the friends-and-family club; I'm not part of the pay-to-play club; I'm not looking to get re-elected. I'm not looking to go to another office and fill my campaign coffers. I don't need any friends in Albany except the people of the state.
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I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.
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The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.
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The only way we are going to make the playoffs is by beating Philly. There is not a single person in this building who believes we can get in any other way.
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I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves.
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The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
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Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.
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I ended up with my life slanted toward television, and I just accept that. I think you play the hand the way it's dealt, that's all.
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Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off the bat, as soon as they can speak or be naughty.
