Alexei Sayle Quotes
The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.
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Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
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I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business.
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I don't know how to not have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun, and I'm going to keep having fun every day I've got left.
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Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
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I came to N.Y.C. in 1988 and got very involved with Act Up. I also started making movies, including two very gay shorts, 'Vaudeville' and 'Lady.' It was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and New York City was both dying and very alive at the same time.
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My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.
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The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.
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If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like Xerox - then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business.
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Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound.
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When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates.
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My first thought was that a man who had come through a collision and rubbed shoulders with death merited more attention than I received.
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According to physical measurements, DNA chains are, on the average, 10,000 units long.
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The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.
