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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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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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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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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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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In the end, the market will decide which is the better performer: dirty coal-fired power or clean wind and solar. Market-based competition. That doesn't sound like communism to me.
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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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You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. And that’s precisely what our society is doing!
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I feel like I'm a pop star without being a diva.
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There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.
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Imparadis'd in one another's arms.
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I think its natural if youre doing a lot of comedy to do a lot of drama, because you have to figure out the real version of the joke.
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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.
