Rowan Atkinson Quotes

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.

Rowan Atkinson

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After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act.

Jim Gerlach

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If you're in journalism, the U.S. - and New York City in particular - is an exciting place to work.

Joanna Coles

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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.

John Burroughs

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I'm a fisherman who likes to observe and tell yarns, and so I told stories about things that I knew about.

John D. Voelker

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Back 20 years ago, there was a division between movie actors and TV actors. That's kind of gone away. People who have had a lot of success in movies in the past now want to be on TV. There used to be much more of a quality division between TV and movies, and that's kind of not the case anymore.

Michael Imperioli

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Here's the thing about Apple, we complain and they give us more battery life. We complain and they'll give us more stuff. Everything's beta right now. Everything's experimental. They really don't know what people want.

Sinbad

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Being nice can be funny. A lot of my jokes are like, 'Let me take a bad situation and try to put the best spin on it.'

Ron Funches

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My philosophy is, honestly, never collected anything that I don't play. I know a lot of people that collect guitars, but for me, I want instruments that I play. And if I don't play them, I don't' want to have them sitting in a closet collecting dust.

Ronnie Montrose

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I'm a closeted nerd. I studied Richard Dawkins. I watched every lecture. He's sort of the leading scientific atheist of our time. He's very provocative. His whole thing is science over spirituality.

Michael Pitt

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When it comes to the acting stuff, I like to show up for a couple days and kind of be outrageous and silly, and go back to my day job.

Josh Groban

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The best thing women in tech can do is to invest in other women.

Christine Tsai

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Never say never. I always want to look like myself - that's key for me. I don't want to look like a different person, I don't want my face frozen.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

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