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.
Stewart Lee
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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.
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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.
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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Ed Belfour
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Lukas Haas
There really is no shortcut just because you have a name, or you have some kind of access or some way you can solve all the problems. And I think one of the things I learned with FUBU, you have to understand that there's really only two ways of operating a business: more sales, or lower overhead.
Daymond John
I think the two-party system isn't working for us. And it hasn't worked for us for generations - let's be very, very honest about that.
Opal Tometi
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
