Harry Shearer Quotes
When Nixon died, on my radio show I started doing sketches with three basic conceits: One, there's a place called Heaven. Two, Nixon got in. And three, he's still taping.
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Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.
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I don't think what I look like is relevant.
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The coolest part about 'God Made Girls' is you had all these different women writing it, so you had all these different perspectives in this song.
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Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.
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There's a reason people use CGI: it's cheaper and faster. I hate that.
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Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
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It's nice to have boundaries, because as long as we have them, we can cross them a bit, and that's what perks interest. If you have full freedom, what do you do?
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The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.
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The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.
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We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war.
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In the 1920s, a generation before the coming of solid-state electronics, one could look at the circuits and see how the electron stream flowed. Radios had valves, as though electricity were a fluid to be diverted by plumbing. With the click of the knob came a significant hiss and hum, just at the edge of audibility.
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Whenever Elvin Jones comes to Seattle I try to go catch him.
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February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally embraced the Super Bowl in January as the high-water mark of his year.
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I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one.
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There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.
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Do you agree that when there's tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst? You have to be loose.
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Is our national goal to place as many people on welfare, food stamp support, as we can possibly put on that program? Is that our goal? Is that a moral vision for the United States of America, just to see how many people we can place in a situation where they're dependent on the federal government for their food?
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My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.
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Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.
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I will tell you, when 20 6-year-olds are gunned down and Congress literally does nothing, yeah that's the closest I came to feeling disgusted.
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I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?
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Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial.
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I started working in the mid-to-late Seventies, when television was not what it is now.
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When Nixon died, on my radio show I started doing sketches with three basic conceits: One, there's a place called Heaven. Two, Nixon got in. And three, he's still taping.
