Stewart Lee (Stewart Graham Lee) Quotes
I don't mind causing offence when I intend to, but I don't like causing it accidentally.
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I'd sort of gone through some sort of spiritual change in the late 70s where I sort of saw there was some other life to live. It changed the way that I worked just having a different presence and a different tension.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Our precious heritage of natural and unspoiled beauty and unpolluted streams, once exhausted and destroyed, can never be replaced.
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There are a lot of people who I look up to. I like what Ricky Gervais does, I also like Ron Howard. It's probably never going to happen, but if I had to pick a couple people, those are two.
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Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.
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Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
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Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.
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When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded.
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I knew that there was an aspect to this story that was beyond the typical and that it was something very important about America, about our culture, and about bringing a story to a new generation that perhaps didn't know the details of it, and hadn't had the visceral experience that this film is 42.
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All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal.
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All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus; it is nearer and farther than they.
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A contemplative should pay equal attention to concentration, energetic effort and equanimity, and not exclusively to one of these factors only.
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It ain't what you eat but how you chew it.
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Pray according to faith, not circumstances.
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Dancing is an important function of music, but so is crying.
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Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
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In the 1950s, buggery was a criminal offence. Now it's a requirement to receive benefits from the federal government.
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I don't mind causing offence when I intend to, but I don't like causing it accidentally.
