Eddie Izzard Quotes
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I am healthy and happy.
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In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.
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There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.
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We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
