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Armando Iannucci has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The only shared reality we have is things we have seen on television.
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Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.
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Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs.
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I refuse to work evenings or weekends. If a script sees my character meeting for dinner, I put a line through the…
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I assume everyone around me is older because they look more responsible.
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I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous.
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I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.
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When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people... and then institutions. You become aware that some…
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The last thing I want to do is use my comedy as a partisan tool or as a method for preaching.
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The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.
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Governments, whether right or left, have become commissioners-in-chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness…
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There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if…
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by…
— Hannah Arendt
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High thoughts must have high language.
— Aristophanes
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement…
— Aristotle
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me…
— Chinua Achebe
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War is what happens when language fails.
— Margaret Atwood
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As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did…
— Margaret Atwood
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
— Diane Ackerman
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The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
— Roger Babson
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
— Gaston Bachelard
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In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can…
— Michelle Bachelet
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
— Walter Bagehot
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