Alexei Sayle Quotes
I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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I go out and speak to women's groups all the time, and I say, 'Guys, you gotta laugh and find the humor in things. You gotta pass it on.'
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I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them.
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Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality.
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People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.
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Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
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It infuriates me that when people forget what it's like not to be a Christian, and they get into other people's face about their life or their beliefs. It's amazing to me that people feel their relationship is so solid with God that they have enough time on their hands to question mine or to fix mine.
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Young men preen. Old men scheme.
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I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.
