Stephen Merchant (Stephen James Merchant) Quotes
People think all fame is the same, but being on BBC Two from time to time does not make you Warren Beatty. I honestly can't impress that upon people enough.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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I have a great office.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?
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Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.
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No one wants to see curvy women.
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I don't think you can beat your audience over the head with hard-hitting cartoons day after day after day.
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Sometimes you can gauge the excitement of the rest of the band. If I'm bringing a song in and they're excited, then I'll hold on to that one. But there are times where it's like, 'Eh, I don't really like that one,' and we have to send that one on.
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I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.
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In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.
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You can wait forever for perfect conditions or you can make do with what you have.
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My whole life was spent doing things that people didn't believe were possible, because God blessed me with the ability to throw a baseball.
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People think all fame is the same, but being on BBC Two from time to time does not make you Warren Beatty. I honestly can't impress that upon people enough.
