Rory Bremner Quotes

I think comedy and satire are a very important part of democracy, and it's important we are able to laugh at the idiosyncrasies or the follies or vanities of people in power.

Rory Bremner

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Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?

Andres Segovia

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If you're not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you're going to be punished for them, then what's your motivation to continue?

Jordan Peterson

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The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

Johnny Depp

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It's a beautiful drive across the United States. It's so interesting. I'm a proud Canadian, and there are so many beautiful parts of Canada, but the United States also has incredible diversity in its landscape.

David Sutcliffe

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I appreciate and enjoy mathematics and science and all that side of things. I definitely have that side of me even though I'm not by any means an expert, but I love reading about physics and math and that kind of stuff. I wish I knew more than I did. I mean, I read books written for laymen, not textbooks or anything.

Chris Parnell

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I've always been very bold - some would say brash. I've always said very edgy, controversial statements.

Corey Stewart

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My grandmother had always played show tunes from classic musicals at the piano when we were growing up, so that helped me fall in love with Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Lerner and Loewe, etc.

Colin Donnell

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If you doubt that we live in a winner-take-all economy and that education is the trump card, consider the vast amounts the affluent spend to teach their offspring.

Chrystia Freeland

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Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.

Alfred Nobel

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And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it's this: where am I telling it from?

Philip Pullman

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I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

Penelope Lively

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You can't forget it is a business and not just playing football for a hobby.

Thomas Muller

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