Paul Merton Quotes
At one point in the mid-Eighties I shared a promoter with the Smiths. One night, we were sitting backstage when Morrissey burst in, utterly distraught, sobbing his heart out. Turns out someone had thrown a sausage at him on stage during 'Meat Is Murder.'
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It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
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I personally approve all the shoes that go into production, and I have a level of involvement with the factories that other people don't have.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil.
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Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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We can do nothing ourselves; God must do it. To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone.
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A man being sued after a woman has more sex than intended is like Lay’s being sued after someone has more potato chips than intended. In brief, date rape can be a crime, a misunderstanding, or buyer’s remorse.
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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.
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When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it is not the first time; it is a homecoming.
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I don't feel special … I was just full of energy and loved to learn.
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Call me curl-crazed, but there's just something about a head full of waves that can command any room and make any outfit more interesting.
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Romantic relationships are the least interesting thing for me to write about. I'm 45, and that's not the most interesting thing in my life anymore.
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You don't have to make something in order to retain your identity as an artist or a writer or a creative person. A lot of people think they have to be producing in order to maintain that identity.
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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
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I thought Oasis were great.
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Dream sleep provides a fascinating neurochemical soothing balm. It is during dream sleep and only during dream sleep when our brain shuts off a stress-related neurochemical called noradrenalin.
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My No. 1 responsibility when I'm not slaying zombies is being a parent.
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I was very disenchanted in the industry for a long time before I met GaGa. Everyone wanted a 'Single Ladies' for their artist, or a Puffy move.
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One winter night, at half past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine
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I started realizing how the condition of our hearts affects the way we see. If your heart is full of bitterness, anger, and resentment, you're going to look at this world as a very evil place.
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A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse.
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Any of the nearby volumes might hold information about hippopotamus portals or contain hints about how he might get home.
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At one point in the mid-Eighties I shared a promoter with the Smiths. One night, we were sitting backstage when Morrissey burst in, utterly distraught, sobbing his heart out. Turns out someone had thrown a sausage at him on stage during 'Meat Is Murder.'
