Eric Idle Quotes
I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
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Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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Health care should be affordable for everyone.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
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Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
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Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
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Donald Trump: I think you've become very negative.Bill O'Reilly: Why would I do that?Trump: Who knows. You'll have to ask your psychiatrist.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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When you turn your life over to God, you don't give up the drama; you give up the cheap drama.
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I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.
