Eddie Izzard Quotes
I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
Quotes to Explore
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same.
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
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Excellence always sells.
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The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
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An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.
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The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
