Ian Hislop Quotes
You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.
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Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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I'm conflicted about the lyric tattoo thing. I feel like that's a lifetime decision, and I always feel like, 'I hope you don't regret this a couple years from now when you get tired of that song.'
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It's all very well setting up your own brand of face cream or exercise wear - but Christ, it's so shallow.
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God shows us in Christ what he would have to do if he were to punish us for our sins.
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My mother - it's not one of those waxing-poetic kind of things - she literally worked two or three jobs most of her life. So I personally experienced that, even though I had these great friends and associations who had unlimited amounts of money. That juxtaposition was an interesting one.
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You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'
