"There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously."

-- Barry Humphries

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“You want to get better even after people smash you down. You want to be better than you were before.”
“I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.”

Source : "The whole world in a community". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.
“The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable timeâ€¦ it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising â€” carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that,”
“I am better off doing as abnegation taught me: turning away from myself, projecting always outward, and hoping that in whatever is next, I will be better than I am now.”
“You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's.”
“It's something, since the nomination and confirmation hearings of Justice Ginsberg, that's really become kind of an unwritten rule, this "I can't answer a question if it's a potential issue that's going to come before me on the Supreme Court." I think that most senators have come to accept that as a very legitimate answer. They don't love it, they're not happy, but it is legitimate when you put it in that context.”
“Young love don't know nothin' when the radio plays you sing along. When she's holding on you just can't get close enough, you swear it's sent from above. It's real,it's good, and it's young love”
“Community living is about having the same rights and choices as everyone else.”

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