Richard Ayoade Quotes

As in, I think 'Badlands' is one of the funniest films of all time: 'Every day I wish I was carried off to a magical land, but that never happened' is one of the funniest lines in any film.

Richard Ayoade

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Yahoo is a consumer brand. It is a consumer brand that allows people to get what they want from the Internet in a way that only Yahoo can deliver it.

Jerry Yang

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My Methodist upbringing was very formative in my politics. I was born in 1969, and there was all this ecumenical 'we're in this together' sensitivity that was part of the United Methodist Church in the 1970s.

Joel Burns

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You've got to really check on what you're doing: check and recheck it seven other times to be prepared. Sometimes, people get carried away with the artistic-ness of the endeavor and don't quite have their game face on when the time comes. It's always a pretty costly mistake.

Melvin Van Peebles

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Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.

Max Muller

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During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions.

Michael Hastings

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Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D.

Stephen Cole Kleene

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I believe that good television should be challenging and frustrating and maddening and thrilling. If you just want to see people who look like you and think like you and do what you would do in any given situation, you'd have to stop looking at TV and start looking in a mirror. But would that be as much fun?

Shonda Rhimes

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When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even if it meant just sitting on my piano bench, staring into space and thinking about it. It's about keeping it regular, like your bowel movements - let's get real: it's your bodily artistic movements! It comes from the same place.

Rufus Wainwright

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There's this great panel - I forget what the actual comic is - of Spider-Man in the rain holding an umbrella and eating some Chinese takeout. It's like, that's the essence of 'Spider-Man.'

Jon Watts

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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Aristotle

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It's always a little nerve-wracking to do a love scene, more than anything because it's just awkward.

Annie Parisse

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People think when you're moving in Zero-G, it's like moving in jelly. But it's not. You're completely free to move however fast as you want.

Asa Butterfield

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