Eddie Izzard Quotes
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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
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According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.
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Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.
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As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.
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Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
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I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.
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Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.
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I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
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It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.
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Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.
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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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The actions of all group leaders throughout history have had one common element: altruism - common good of the collective. Religious leaders and the 'moral' majority condemn the likes of Hitler, Stalin, etc. but their movements and foundations are alike.
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It was this idea (Be nice!) that fueled liberals' rage at Reagan when he vanquished the Soviet Union with his macho 'cowboy diplomacy' that was going to get us all blown up. As the Times editorial page hysterically described Reagan's first year in office: 'Mr. Reagan looked at the world through gun sights.' Yes, he did! And now the Evil Empire is no more.
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My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.
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Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
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I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it.
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I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
