Stewart Lee Quotes

I think a comedian has to be low status on some level; that gives you the right to do all sorts of jokes about all sorts of different kinds of people.

Stewart Lee

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Normal people have sex lives of their own to worry about.

Jessica Cutler

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I don't ever really feel that wearing my wedding ring is what determines me being married or not.

Jessica Simpson

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Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist.

John Eaton

MeSayNeverFirstWellBeen

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is there means that you've got some dues to pay to Baby Dodds.

John Zorn

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I didn't think rap was me. But I was shy to sing in front of people. It'd be so off because I was shy.

Stefflon Don

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It's always boiled down to the quality of your music and the quality of your deal with whoever's distributing your music: There are artists who sold a lot of records and didn't make money because of their deal, and artists who didn't sell nearly as much who made a great living because they own their masters.

Troy Carter

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By comparison, 'The Secret Agent' is not especially prescient about terrorism, certainly not technically. The Professor was a stock figure of Edwardian fiction, and his dreams of mass destruction were nothing ahead of their time. Many novels in the late 19th and early 20th centuries involved plots far more deadly.

Tom Reiss

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I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.

Michael Nesmith

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This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.

Don Johnson

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I have wanted to direct for quite some time, but I wanted to be ready and know what I am doing. I wanted to know the basics.

Dhanush

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I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead.

Demetri Martin

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