Stephen Merchant Quotes

I was trying for years to woo people through humour, but it seems flash cars are much easier.

Stephen Merchant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 24, 1974

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I like to say, 'Chop suey's the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another,' because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means 'tsap sui,' which, if you translate back, means 'odds and ends.'

Jennifer Lee

FoodCultureYouBackSayOdds

My father is very supportive of anything that his kids want to do.

Steve Ells

FatherWantAnythingKidsSupportive

At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau.

Sibel Edmonds

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The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky.

Robert Wilson

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We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

Ronald Reagan

InspirationalSomeoneHelpEveryone

Principles, convictions and motives are neither sold nor bargained for!

Joseph Pulitzer

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Maureen O'Sullivan did 'Hannah and Her Sisters' with Mia Farrow, her daughter, but O'Sullivan had a very minor role.

Diane Ladd

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If I'd had more courage, I would've pursued a less commercial path. Maybe I would've gone into musical theater.

Debbie Millman

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Raise your ambition beyond where you're capable of now. There's nothing about my hometown that said I'd be working with Fortune 50 CEO's, Olympians, at the highest level.

Brendon Burchard

AmbitionHometownYouSaidNothing

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

Bryant H. McGill

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If you can teach a child, then her family and her future is taken care of.

Sunil Mittal

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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Thomas Mann

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