Eric Idle Quotes
If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?
Eric Idle
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Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
Gary Shteyngart
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
D. H. Lawrence
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I have a huge promotion: you've heard from me on 'Vantage Point' and also with 'Cyrano Fernandez' – that is a Venezuelan movie that I star in and co-produced, and it's based on the romance of Cyrano de Bergerac. And it's set in a Venezuelan slum. It's a free version of the French play.
Edgar Ramirez
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It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things.
Warren Zevon
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The more famous you become, the less people will tell you your faults.
Paloma Picasso
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I love New York, I love the smell of New York... I love the subway.
Harold Ford, Jr.
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On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
Ignazio Silone
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Having spent 37 years of my life in the military as a reservist, and never having met a gay in all of that time, and never having even talked about it in all those years, I just thought, why the hell shouldn't they serve? They're American citizens. As long as they're not doing things that are harmful to anyone else... So I came out for it.
Barry Goldwater
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Ammu explained to Estha and Rahel that people always loved best what they Identified most with.
Arundhati Roy
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When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters but telegrams.
Anton Chekhov
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I'm separated by other performers with whom I might be lumped, since what I say is so intensely personal. I'm anti-art and anti-poetry. As much as possible, I want to inflict my personal pain on the rest of society.
Lydia Lunch
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The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.
Joe Sakic
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There is a solitude of space, A solitude of sea, A solitude of death, but these Society shall be, Compared with that profounder site, That polar privacy, A Soul admitted to Itself: Finite Infinity.
Emily Dickinson
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There is a cyclone fence between ourselves and the slaughter and behind it we hover in a calm protected world like netted fish, exactly like netted fish. It is either the beginning or the end of the world, and the choice is ourselves or nothing.
Carolyn Forche
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Success, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
Ambrose Bierce
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'A philosophical problem of no importance or meaning,' Joe said. 'And incapable of being proved one way or the other.'
Philip K. Dick
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I don't have a vested interest in a particular political career or a particular political office. My job is to do everything that I can to create an America and a world that we can live in and that we can survive in.
Jill Stein
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If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?
Eric Idle
