Rik Mayall Quotes

When I was young, I saw some of my heroes doing it on the telly. We're talking about Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Arthur Lowe, Ian McKellan, Kenneth Williams. These were all guys telling stories to me.

Rik Mayall

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 7, 1958 - June 9, 2014

Topics

MeDoingTalkingYoungHeroesSaw

If we continue to tolerate this level of poverty in our cities, and go along with eviction as commonplace in poor neighborhoods, it's not for a lack of resources. It will be a lack of something else.

Matthew Desmond

PovertyGoWillPoorResources

If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.

Anna Freud

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Gay weddings will be remembered as Tony Blair's greatest achievement!

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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It's really disgusting what Hollywood can do to a guy.

Ron Perlman

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Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable.

Mo Ibrahim

ExperienceManagementPoliticalShows

I have pretty set rules that I go home for dinner every night unless I am traveling.

Diane Greene

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Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.

Chief Seattle

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I was allowed to write about race using an elevator metaphor because of Toni Morrison and David Bradley and Ralph Ellison. Hopefully, me being weird allows someone who's 16 and wanting to write inspires them to have their own weird take on the world, and they can see the different kinds of African American voices being published.

Colson Whitehead

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The corruption doesn't cease, the crime rates don't come down, no matter which party comes to power.

Pratyusha Banerjee

PowerCorruptionDownPartyMatter

It is easy for me to go play a rock show, I have been doing that all my life and I love that.

Sebastian Bach

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I'm just trying to get paid; I'm going to be straight up.

Tyron Woodley

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When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad.

Ken Burns

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