Eddie Izzard Quotes
About homophobes As long as they're homophobic behind closed doors, and don't hurt anyone, I'm fine with it.
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I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.
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It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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You know how screwed up censorship is, two girls just agreed to make out naked in front of their fathers, and we went wait, don't curse.
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We take the suggestions people give us and build the best reality we can for them.
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It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
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I fought for a long time on 'Battlestar' to let my hair grow out. It was very frustrating because every single person on the show was changing their hair. It was not fair.
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I think it's very important that films like Bad Hurt don't get lost in the mix of the sci-fi-kill-everything-on-the-screen-blood-dripping-down-the-walls sort of the world of the cinema that we live in.
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About homophobes As long as they're homophobic behind closed doors, and don't hurt anyone, I'm fine with it.
