Stewart Lee (Stewart Graham Lee) Quotes

Nothing is too controversial, but you have to think about how to do it with sensitivity. I don't try to be insensitive. I think really, really carefully about exactly what things mean and how they will affect people.

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• Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
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• I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

  

  Naomi Campbell
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  • Trying
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• People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.

  

  Samantha Mumba
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  • Up
  • Waiting

• Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
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• I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.

  

  Barbara Boxer
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• Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.

  

  Kate Mosse
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  • Never
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• People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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  • Why
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• I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
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  • Most
  • Admit

• My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.

  

  Taya Kyle
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  • Country
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• At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
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  • Trying
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• But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

  

  Captain Beefheart
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• There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail.

  

  Sadie Frost
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  • Want
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• I've always been a big advocate of making shows affordable because a lot of these bottle-service clubs and events are geared toward really expensive experiences. Club music is for everyone, and it drives me crazy that people are getting priced out.

  

  Kaskade
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• I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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• Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people that I've worked with from Suite Chic has lend their voice.

  

  Namie Amuro
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  • Fun
  • Voice

• We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
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  • Up
  • Music

• I like to consider myself a relatively spiritual person, and I just do my thing. I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• I'm aware of what kids like because I'm constantly in touch with them. Also, they say that a lot of people who write for children can remember their own childhoods vividly and I can remember my childhood very vividly.

  

  Eric Wilson
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  • Children
  • Kids

• O, human love! thou spirit given,On Earth, of all we hope in Heaven!

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
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  • Heaven

• I have goals that I want to reach, but you can never plan what's going to happen next.

  

  Lee DeWyze
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• I was very lucky with 'Soap' and 'Who's the Boss,' which was great fun, and then went on 'Coach' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond.' I've been truly blessed, and the work has all been fun and a joy.

  

  Katherine Helmond
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• I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.

  

  Lapo Elkann
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• Nothing is too controversial, but you have to think about how to do it with sensitivity. I don't try to be insensitive. I think really, really carefully about exactly what things mean and how they will affect people.

  

  Stewart Lee
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