Armando Iannucci Quotes
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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Buildings are forms of performances.
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When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina.
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I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
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Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
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What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire.
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.
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I think about the history of racism in this country all the time.
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Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
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The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.
