Steve Coogan (Stephen John Coogan) Quotes
Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.
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I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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I'm a political conservative.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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I don't want to die an old lady.
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Karl Lagerfeld looks very tough because of the glasses, and he has all these rings and the leather gloves, and he's so smart. But he's a very nice person... when he comes into a room or studio, he is going to say hello to each person, and the same when he leaves.
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As consumers, we are faced with hundreds of choices - and when it comes to books, thousands of choices.
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I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.
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The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.
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It was always from the love of strong women that he had found whatever joy had been granted him in his life.
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I would have beaten Bloomberg like a rented mule.
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If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.
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My body and my will are one.
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
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If you want to be an architect of change by raising great kids, God bless. If you want to do it by raising money for your kid's school, great. If you want to build a garden - whatever it is. Women like myself - they're complicated, and they have a lot of different interests and qualities within them.
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Up to now my involvement in the Tibetan freedom struggle has been part of my spiritual practice, because the issues of the survival of the Buddha Teaching and the freedom of Tibet are very much related. In this particular struggle, there is no problem with many monks and nuns, including myself, joining.
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And the central assertion of his philosophy is that this inner realm is the 'spiritual world' and that once man has learned to enter this realm, he realizes that it is not a mere imaginative reflection of the external world, but a world that possesses its own independent reality.
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The Universe is not a collection of objects, but is an inseparable web of vibrating energy patterns in which no one component has reality independently from the entirety. Included in the entirety is the observer.
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One of the things I say is, 'You want to know what it's like to be a baby? It's like being in love for the first time in Paris after four double espressos.' And boy, you are alive and conscious.
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Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.
