Eric Idle Quotes
I never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me.
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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Breitbart media is named after the same gentleman who basically framed Shirley Sherrod during the Obama administration.
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No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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I didn't want to do something typical.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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Even those that hate Hillary admit she is a work horse and not a show horse. She gets down into the nuts and bolts and figures out, 'What's the policy, what's the substance?'
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I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
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There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.
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Your personal testimony, however meaningful it is to you, is not the gospel.
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Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.
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When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.
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Because America leads the world by example, it's no surprise that some might seek to imitate our domestic rules and regulations on a global scale.
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The right of no nation depends upon the date of its birth or the size of its power. As there can be no second class citizens before the law of America, so-we believe-there can be no second-class nations before the law of the world community.
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I never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me.
