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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Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods.
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
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What I had to learn was, that I'm only responsible for my perception of things. The world's not out to get you. That's not the way it works.
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You go out and obtain from your political allies and friends in the academic world to sign a letter saying that the offenses as alleged in the articles of impeachment do not rise to the level of an impeachable offense.
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If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country.
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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.
