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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What's happening now with technology is we live with very porous boundaries. All those little interruptions fragment our time and attention and make us feel like work never ends. It makes us feel like we don't ever have that sacred time for family or to breathe or meditate or for leisure. Time is contaminated for everyone. I'm hoping that as we get used to these technologies we'll get smarter about how we use them and also how to shut them off.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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Chris Guest has his own form. It's a way of working that is really intense, and you can commit a lot, and you focus a lot. You get to bring a lot. You get to bring things maybe you haven't seen before. You're asked to care a great deal for these people who you're playing and create heart and empathy.
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Yoga is just good for you.
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If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.
