Eric Idle Quotes
I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.
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As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play.
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Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
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We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.
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I'm a man without a corporation.
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I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.
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I am closer and closer to reaching my childhood dream. This is really exciting! I will continue to work hard, to focus on each tournament I play.
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Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.
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It's not for me or another European to speak about domestic political choices or decisions in the U.S.
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I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!
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The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.
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Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.
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Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations.
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If the numbers we see in domestic violence were applied to terrorism or gang violence, the entire country would be up in arms, and it would be the lead story on the news every night.
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I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes.
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A fellow once came to me to ask for an appointment as a minister abroad. Finding he could not get that, he came down to some more modest position. Finally, he asked to be made a tide-waiter. When he saw he could not get that, he asked me for an old pair of trousers. It is sometimes well to be humble.
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In the theater you can chain a blue-assed baboon in the stalls and with a good script, good actors, and a good set you'd have what is called a production. With the cinema someone has to know about lenses and fine things. I have no time for the "auteur de cinema." To me, it's meaningless.
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I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.
