Armando Iannucci Quotes
The last thing I want to do is use my comedy as a partisan tool or as a method for preaching.Armando Iannucci
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus -
I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
Nadia Comaneci -
There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
La India -
It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
Dan Colen -
I'm mostly vegetarian.
Zuleikha Robinson
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
Harry Browne -
What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
Olin Miller -
Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
Gail Porter -
It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
Samuel Beckett -
I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
Garry Kasparov -
A different language is a different vision of life.
Federico Fellini
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'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'
Mahershala Ali -
Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
Randy Pausch -
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
Kate Bush -
You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
Owen Wilson -
Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.
Calvin Johnson
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When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.
John Bolton -
I'm in San Francisco because of the energy, the ideas, and the fact that this is a great place for me to land. When I'm traveling and working nationally, I love coming back here.
Bryant Terry -
What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
Yahya Jammeh -
In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.
Chris Lilley -
I'll see something, and I'll go, 'Oh, wow, that's interesting,' because really, comedy comes from the truth.
Loni Love -
The last thing I want to do is use my comedy as a partisan tool or as a method for preaching.
Armando Iannucci