Eric Idle Quotes
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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I became a dancer late and an actor late.
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
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I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter goals. Losing a lot of weight, for example, should include mini-goals, such as 10-pound milestones. This will keep your subconscious mind focused on what you want step by step.
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Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.
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My dad was a bedwetter; I think his dad was a bedwetter. I like to talk about it because it's something that I thought would be my deepest, darkest secret my whole life, and then you become an adult, and it's not.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.
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It's such fun to take a lot of people and create something silly.
