Alexei Sayle Quotes
I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
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I like the Kardashians. I watch 'em. When Kim got the botox in her face, and it made her face go weepy, that was funny. I also watch 'America's Next Top Model.' I've always been a big fan.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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As a student, I hadn't really been interested in architecture at all, but when I started teaching, it grew into me - rather than me growing into it.
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
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Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.
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The human body has been called the microcosm of the universe, a little world of wonders and a monument of divine wisdom and power, sufficient to convince the most incredulous mind of the existence of the Great Designer.
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My early childhood was spent living by the Pacific Ocean. I carry with me something imprinted by that wide, limitless horizon, which I learned connected us to different people and cultures, including my own family's origins in the Arab World and Northern Europe. I understood early that my world was only a small part of a much larger one. That captivated me.
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I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.
