Stewart Lee (Stewart Graham Lee) Quotes
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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I'm prepared for Amir Khan moving swiftly - or for whatever style he comes out using. I prepared with sparring, in the style similar to what he uses.
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I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.
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I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
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There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
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The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
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I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
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My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time.
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I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture.
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I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.
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Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
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Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
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I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.
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Remember that we're only on our third record, which is not really a lot. We live in the era of trilogies, and we definitely feel like the first three records mark the end of a phase for us.
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It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.
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When I started, I had that naïve mentality that you shouldn't have to dress celebrities if your product is good. But when you're an emerging brand and you don't have millions for advertising and marketing, it's a good vehicle to penetrate the demographic that doesn't read GQ - or Interview. But if they see Milo Ventimiglia in one of my leather jackets in Us Weekly, that's a new audience for me.
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Stand-up is more of an organic process. An imagined dialogue with the audience.
