"A law which attempts to say you can……" — Rowan Atkinson
"A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed."
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64 Quotes by Rowan Atkinson
Rowan Atkinson has 64 quotes on this site.
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Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying.
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You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a…
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The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule,…
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I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be…
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Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things…
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I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for…
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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.
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But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such…
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I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a…
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I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling…
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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More Attempts Quotes
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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always…
— Hannah Arendt
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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;…
— Annie Besant
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No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning…
— Aneurin Bevan
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Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over…
— Andrea Bocelli
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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
— Andre Breton
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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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I've always said that the 1986 [Immigration Reform and Control] Act had a fourth leg [in addition to law enforcement,…
— Jan C. Ting
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If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near…
— Harry Vardon
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People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying…
— Florence Nightingale
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It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data…
— Nicholas Delbanco
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