Alexei Sayle Quotes
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I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.
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During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.
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There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.
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You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.
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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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I think that when you're kind of just shoved out there and you have to be tough and you're facing tough people and people are saying bad things about you, that all of a sudden, you have to become a little less sweet.
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I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.
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The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice.
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Whenever I come to Delhi, I forget about eating right and watching my weight.
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It's always good to take something that's happened in your life and make something of it comedically.
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The fact is, employees cannot make breakthroughs if they can't openly and honestly disagree with their peers and their leader. Indeed, great leaders don't just permit conflict; they actively try to elicit it from reluctant employees as well.
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That's what I love about the Internet. Even if it's small-scale and you're just posting on a forum, that's an uncensored expression. That's what I love.
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I'd known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.
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We all choose our own teachers, don't we? I wonder if our choice of teacher shows anything about what our lives will be.
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There is a decivilizing bug somewhere at work; unconsciously persons of stern worth, by not resenting and resisting the small indignities of the times, are preparing themselves for the eventual acceptance of what they themselves know they don’t want.
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There's no great loss without some small gain.
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it’s Eternity. In India, they use the word ‘karma,’ for lack of any better term.
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Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.
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Did I not come to you on my knees with a kingdom in my hand?
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I always thought communism was crap, really.
