Harry Shearer Quotes
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I sing a lot, so if I have lipstick, it gets all over the microphone, so I rarely wear lipstick.
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And, stretching in languid warmth, she contrived to twist her body into first one luxurious position, then another.
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Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game don't have two home supply centers touching each other.
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It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.
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Presence is more than just being there.
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What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
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Politics is social work with power.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.
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I've seen mothers and children really being vulnerable in the refugee camps; it's supposed to be temporary, but they end up having children who have grown up in refugee camps.
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We are really trying to move from being just a technology provider to being a partner with our customers.
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Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.
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The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.
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I had very strict parents. My two brothers were power and freedom. I was powerlessness and seclusion.
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Music is my greatest love. It is also my first love. But I love a lot of things, including painting, drawing, writing, designing, and more.
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But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.
