Ricky Gervais Quotes

I wanted to be clever, but being funny came first. That's how you know someone is clever. They don't come out and tell you pi to 13 places - they tell you a joke.

Ricky Gervais

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 25, 1961

Topics

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You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams.

Jermain Defoe

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There was one television in the living room, and we all sat around on Sundays and watched Ed Sullivan.

Jeffrey Tambor

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There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

Johnny Ball

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When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.

Mike Wallace

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I want to make clothes that are beautiful of course, but also clothes that are interesting and considered and intelligent and not out of place.

Miuccia Prada

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We can never run away from our past. The past will catch up to us because it is us. It is a part of us; it's what makes us we are. It's what delineates the borders of our societies.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.

Jason Calacanis

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Single guys get a bad rap.

David Spade

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Liberals always cry wolf.

Bret Stephens

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Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

Bob Feller

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I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources.

Bob Woodward

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The Oscars are about the dynamics of that moment, of that season. It reflects what's been going on in the world every year through the movies. And a lot of times, what's popular at the movies is popular because of what's going on in the world at that moment.

Bruce Vilanch

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