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The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.

Because we were all from Liverpool, we favored people who were street people.

The truth is that the free movement of goods, people, and money that developed under British hegemony between 1870 and 1913 - the first episode of globalization - was made possible, in large part, by military might rather than market forces.

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.

The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.

The public has every right to see Robert S. Mueller III's conclusions. Absolutely nothing in the law or the regulations prevents the report from becoming public. Indeed, the relevant sources of law give Attorney General P. William Barr all the latitude in the world to make it public.

An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.

I don't love to generalize, because I think every person has bad and good in them.

I grew up in a lot of stage managers' booths, memorizing the lines. I'm sure I was the most annoying child in existence.

We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated.

As authors, we all have to learn not to be reactive to public statements about our books. It's really not our business what each reader thinks of them.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

We have made a commitment to feed 20-million people over the next two years. We are somewhere around 10 million. But I can promise you that we are not going to stop at 20 million. Because hunger, there is almost no cure for it. You can take care of the problem today, but it is a recurring problem.

Anybody who was in 'The Godfather' is a tough guy.

I never dress the same way for a week - I'll dress like a whole other person the next week.

I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the '80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I'd fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films.

I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do 'cause then at least I would've done what I wanted to do in life. What's that worth?

In 1987, I was in Edinburgh doing my first one-man show. I took part in a kickabout with some fellow comedians and tripped over my trousers and heard this cracking sound in my leg. A couple of days later I went into a coma and was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism.