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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• Binge viewing has been around since DVD box sets.

  

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• I've always wanted to do a travel show for people who never thought they could.

  

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• I'm just a musician and a record producer.

  

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• Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.

  

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• Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.

  

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• We always make music and continue to make hits.

  

  Quavo Migos
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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
  • Great
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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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  • Free
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• I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Idea
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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
  • Know
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  • Learn

• The more famous you become, the less people will tell you your faults.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • People
  • You
  • Famous

• I love New York, I love the smell of New York... I love the subway.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • New York
  • Smell
  • Subway

• 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
  • Men
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  • Together

• 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
  • Life
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• Ammu explained to Estha and Rahel that people always loved best what they Identified most with.

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • People

• When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters but telegrams.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Money

• 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
  • Art
  • Society
  • Pain

• The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name.

  

  Christopher Alexander
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Fire

• When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.

  

  John Paul DeJoria
  • Money
  • Innovation

• One day I realized that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can't even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life. That's when you can begin really looking for a relationship. When you can appreciate the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.

  

  David Bowie
  • Soul
  • Miracle
  • Appreciate

• The number of people who are actual supporters of Mr. Romney could very well be less than the Donner Party, whose members they sadly resemble in many ways.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
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• If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?

  

  Eric Idle