Paul Merton Quotes
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It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
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The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.
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Actors don't have real value.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
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Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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The country in which reparations actually happen is a very different one than the one we live in.
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I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'
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Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real space, in three dimensions, in flesh and blood. I realized I had been trying to cram all this narrative into my paintings, but ultimately painting was a static medium. So it just opened up this whole new door.
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I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.
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If you consider the definition of authenticity, it's saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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I was proud of how our guys bounced back.
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You have the RIGHT to change your mind.
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The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.
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Men without jobs do not form families.
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
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Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich.
