Ed Byrne Quotes
It's a DVD, and some of it might be shown on TV, so I'll be keeping it clean. There'll be no swearing, bad language or dirty talk. No, no, none of that. Because as my mother always says, "if you have to swear to get laughs, then you're obviously a cunt."

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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
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I swear on everything holy I do not know what's on the Internet about me.
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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
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The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.
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In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.
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I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.
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'Is it different, then, for men and for women?''What isn’t, dearie?'
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The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.
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The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.
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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
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People are always telling me to shut up about Chicago.
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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It's a DVD, and some of it might be shown on TV, so I'll be keeping it clean. There'll be no swearing, bad language or dirty talk. No, no, none of that. Because as my mother always says, "if you have to swear to get laughs, then you're obviously a cunt."