Eddie Izzard Quotes
I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.Eddie Izzard
Quotes to Explore
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
Maajid Nawaz -
General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
Fidel Castro -
It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
Marc Almond Soft Cell -
So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
Jackson Browne -
There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
Larry Ellison -
Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
Larry Ellison -
I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
Randy Pausch -
The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.
L. Lionel Kendrick -
The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
Naveen Jain
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
Natascha McElhone -
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
Calvin Trillin -
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
Edmund Burke -
I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
Tanya Roberts -
I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
Karin Slaughter -
Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
Zainab Salbi
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Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.
Bret Easton Ellis -
Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it's about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself.
Mark Batterson -
He was inordinately proud of England, and he abused her incessantly.
H. G. Wells -
Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.
Hayao Miyazaki -
If I start a film of my own, then what I eliminate is acting in other people's movies. Because once I start, and I go raise the money, it's about two and a half or three years, and I can't stop. I have people hired. I can't say, 'Ooh there's a good part called 'Drive'; I'll see you in three months.'
Albert Brooks -
I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.
Eddie Izzard