"In the UK a lot of people don't like to try. There's a different cultural thing. Here [in USA] if you try and fail, you get up again and start again and keep going. People respect you for it. Even if you keep failing, they respect the tenacity."

-- Eddie Izzard

#Usa Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Donâ€™t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.”
“The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.”
“If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading parents to mere intermediaries between their children and the market. This indeed is a social revoluation in our time!”
“As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.”
“A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.”
“Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.”
“I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.”
“I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.”

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