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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There are moments when I dare not think of it, but there are others when I rise in spirit to where she ever dwells; then I can thank God that I love the noblest lady in the world, the most gracious and beautiful, and that there was nothing in my love that made her fall short in her high duty.
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It's easier to poke holes in an idea than think of ways to fill them. And it's easier to focus on the 100 reasons you shouldn't do something rather than the one reason you should.
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Sail through the sea of sad faces with love. Love. Love for everyone. Drift like a little boat on a wave.
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The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth.
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I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.
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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.
