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Jimmy Carr Quotes

Women were quite terrifying until I was older. I think that's partly down to confidence.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: english
Birth: September 15, 1972

Topics

Confidence Women Think Down Older

I sometimes think my earnestness is confused for stupidity, but it shouldn't be.

Stupidity Think Confused Sometimes

You can't live if you don't eat, but you don't live to eat. And neither does business exist primarily to make a profit. It exists to fulfill its purpose, whatever that might be.

Live Business Purpose You Profit

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Walls Thought You Heights Knowing

Not to get too maudlin, but I think all mistakes are tests for one's mettle.

Mistakes Think Tests Get I Think

We believe the way social change occurs in the United States, over the last 200 years, is the democratic process.

Change Believe Process Social Change

Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.

Food Green You More Cotton Cook

Football is a great love because I was born into a family of players and therefore born into football. I'm fortunate to have a style of play that a lot of people like. It's a privilege to be able to do what I like best and in my own way, but I'm fortunate that people like it, and that motivates me even more.

Family Love Great Style Best People

For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've sort of turned over a stone that hasn't been turned over.

Work Fun Me Feel Interesting Stone

I have a Keurig coffee maker, which is really kind of a luxury. It was given to me by an ex. I realized when I'm feeling sentimental, I'll gently, tenderly press the button. Then when I remember he dumped me, I punch it.

Coffee Me Remember Luxury Feeling

I am an only child and home-schooled, so I have no siblings or classmates.

I Am Child Classmates Only Child Am

To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.

Christopher Alexander

Life Work Deep Language Learn Way

Writing is a black-box proposition. You see actors; you can see what they're doing. You can watch the director on set doing his work. But when a studio says to a writer, 'Give us some pages,' he just goes off and comes back. It's just pages, and suddenly, there's some writing on them.

Work Writing Doing You Back See

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