Clive James (Vivian Leopold James) Quotes
If the assembled company rags you for a failing, you can usually play up to it for comic effect: it's the failing they don't mention that you have to watch out for.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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I'm not Cinderella.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.
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You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.
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One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.
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I'm not against religion in the sense that I feel I can't tolerate it, but I think written into the rubric of religion is the certainty of its own truth. And since there are 6,000 religions currently on the face of the earth, they can't all be right. And only the secular spirit can guarantee those freedoms and it's the secular spirit that they contest.
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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'I got my pecs, I got limos, I got bitches, and all my limo's powered by bitch juice, and my spare pecs are in the limo.' … 'I'm gonna fuck you up. I'm gonna dig up your dad, and shove him up your mum and drink your blood from a drinking cup, you fuck!'
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All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life.
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If the assembled company rags you for a failing, you can usually play up to it for comic effect: it's the failing they don't mention that you have to watch out for.
