Eric Idle Quotes
John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
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My idea of fast food is a mallard.
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I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.
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The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
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As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
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I'm kind of a nervous guy. I know on television I look like I'm half asleep, but inside I'm going about 100 miles an hour.
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One game I'm always on is 'NBA Jam.' And 'Bejeweled,' games like that, and 'Temple Run.'
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Action films can be like watching paint dry. You can just die in the trailer waiting for them to set up a shot, then you go out for a few minutes or an hour of endurance testing.
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I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.
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He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.
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John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.
