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Stewart Lee Quotes

Nothing is too controversial, but you have to think about how to do it with sensitivity. I don't try to be insensitive. I think really, really carefully about exactly what things mean and how they will affect people.

Stewart Lee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: english
Birth: April 5, 1968

Topics

People Think You Nothing Try Mean

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

John Cleese

Best Comedy Always Works

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Good Action Inevitable Mark Appears

What we're seeing is that even in high poverty neighborhoods, the average cost of renting is quickly approaching the total income of welfare recipients and low wage workers.

Matthew Desmond

Poverty Seeing High Cost Workers

Nicholas I has been called 'Genghis Khan with a telegraph.' Stalin was 'Genghis Khan with a telephone.' But Mr. Putin is not Genghis Khan with a BlackBerry.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Telephone Telegraph Been Blackberry

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. The next time a woman runs, or a black, a Jew, or anyone from a group that the country is 'not ready' to elect to its highest office, I believe that he or she will be taken seriously from the start.

Shirley Chisholm

Time Woman Start Believe Black

You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl and ultimately not the girl out of Texas.

Janine Turner

Girl Texas You Out Take Ultimately

I have never seen a script that hasn't gone through at least eight different iterations before they even begin filming, and frequently what is filmed is not what's in the script, because things change on the ground. An actor can't say a particular line. An actor will have a brainstorm and ad lib something utterly brilliant.

Diana Gabaldon

Change Say Actor Brilliant Never

In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.

Dennis Prager

America White Know Race Students

I used to be unusually short, and I think I'd prefer that to being unusually tall.

Brendon Urie

Think Short Tall Used Being I Think

I would never do a commercial for something that is embarrassing, and I think that people maybe have a different perspective on what is embarrassing or not. Some people think doing a Revlon hair commercial is really cool. To me, that's embarrassing, but World of Warcraft - not embarrassing, very cool.

Aubrey Plaza

Perspective People Cool Hair World

It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

Wilma Rudolph

Life Discipline Me You Accomplish

Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.

Susannah McCorkle

Romantic Me Somebody Like Once