Eddie Izzard Quotes
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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
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There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.
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I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
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I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.
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As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
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I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
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The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
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The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.
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If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.
