Stewart Lee (Stewart Graham Lee) Quotes

Sometimes, I read that I'm this leftwing comic who just goes on about politics the whole time. Other times, I read that it's just surreal nonsense about crisps. It's both of those.

Stewart Lee

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• I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because no one - including me - understands my mind creatively. I haven't really been formally introduced to my gift yet. I feel like I'm still on the runway.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Mind
  • Alone

• Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Words
  • Opportunity
  • Equality

• In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Support
  • Kind
  • Research

• If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Want
  • Food
  • Three

• Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a formula, which gives a comfort routine for viewers. But we allow our directors total autarchy in putting their personalities on their stories.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
  • Think
  • Joy
  • Forever

• There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Sports

• When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Random

• Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Changed

• I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Opportunity

• While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Up
  • Know
  • Easy

• When you're competitive, the last thing you want to do is come out of a game, regardless of what kind of injury it is - whether it's an ankle, a knee, a rib, or a head injury.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Game
  • Want
  • Kind

• In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Work
  • Interesting

• There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Respect
  • Day

• Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.

  

  Carl Orff
  • Time
  • Children
  • Heart

• I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Lost
  • Myself
  • Like

• In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Country
  • Art
  • Home

• My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Growing

• We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Death

• What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.

  

  William Inge
  • Share
  • Equal
  • Socialism

• Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Heart
  • Light
  • Treasure

• If anything, a message back to Donald Trump is, if you have proof, if you have evidence, please bring it forward. Procedures are in place to investigate any real voter fraud.

  

  Audie Cornish
  • Real
  • Evidence
  • Please

• Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Actor
  • Show
  • Coach

• Sometimes, I read that I'm this leftwing comic who just goes on about politics the whole time. Other times, I read that it's just surreal nonsense about crisps. It's both of those.

  

  Stewart Lee
  • Politics
  • Comic
  • Nonsense