Eric Idle Quotes
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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Clients don't expect perfection from the service providers they hire, but they do expect honesty and transparency. There is no better way to demonstrate this than by acknowledging when a mistake has been made and humbly apologizing for it.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad's Republican, so that's what I decided to register as.
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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
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I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.
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We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.
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My mother was a beautiful lady, elegant, chic, and that was the biggest inspiration to me.
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Life is love, heartache and strain,
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The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.
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One picture is worth a thousand words.
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I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.
