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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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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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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The devil made me do it.
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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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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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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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My problem is that I am perhaps too much of a democrat for this time of the country's life. If you need a dictator, then go to the Afghan people. Let them elect a dictator. I am not one of those.
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An important part of what the state does is preserving its history.
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I think that there are real concerns that we have around whose life is important and why. So if the official story is, for example, somebody was running from the police, does their life matter?
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Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion.
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Impossible is not a fact... it's an opinion. What's impossible only remains so until someone finds a way to do what others are sure can't be done.
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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?'
