Al Murray Quotes
In the world of comedy, there's this: "If it's going badly, get off. If it's going well, get off". You can't argue with that either.
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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
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I'm a political conservative.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.
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Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.
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In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.
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The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
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There's three networks you want to be on: It's either AMC, HBO, or Showtime.
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There's never a dull moment on a David O. Russell set. But that's the beauty of it. That's the magic.
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I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.
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Putin is like Al Capone.
Garry Kasparov -
Everything you do in a patient's room, after he is 'put up' for the night, increases tenfold the risk of his having a bad night. But, if you rouse him up after he has fallen asleep, you do not risk - you secure him a bad night.
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My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.
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Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life.
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I don't have many walls that I put up.
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I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother's side it's more mixture, with a Filipino mother and a father who was Scotch Irish-French; you know, white American hybrid. And I also have on my father's side a great-great-grandmother who was Chinese. So, I'm a hybrid.
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A lot of comedy films, there's the opinion, 'Well, if it's funny, put it in.' But I think you have to be more disciplined than that.
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My favorite Elvis era has always been his early Sun Records stuff. It was raw, just Elvis singing what he felt. It had all the influences of black blues that came out of Memphis and these gospel quartets that he loved. You can really hear that in his music from Sun.
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Washington doesn't have just a spending problem, or just an entitlement problem, or just a taxing problem. We have a leadership problem. Fix that, and the first three problems are solved.
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In the world of comedy, there's this: "If it's going badly, get off. If it's going well, get off". You can't argue with that either.
