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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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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Personal style is not something that is just in the air. It is something you have and that you apply to yourself.
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The advent of so much dribbling has created a different kind of player, and it starts at a very early age. We have so many gifted ball handlers. Everything is pick-and-roll. Unless he's a catch-and-shoot guy, a player is going to put it on the floor and attack. Kevin Durant is a wonderful ball handler.
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I am not a hypocrite.
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I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
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Immigrants are more fertile.
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Poetry has the ability to create entire moments with just a few choice words. The spacing and line breaks create rhythm, a helpful musicality, a natural flow. The separate stanzas aid in perpetuating a kind of incremental reading, one small chunk at a time.
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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.
