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Most modern comedy is crap.
- Adrian Edmondson
The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing,
and we laugh at our own jokes.
- Adrian Edmondson
We had so much fun in Ghana and they are really lovely people.
- Adrian Edmondson
It only works because we still amuse each other.
After we have been working with other people,
it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again.
- Adrian Edmondson
I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance.
- Adrian Edmondson
We have never been strictly political,
only strictly funny.
- Adrian Edmondson
You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.
- Adrian Edmondson
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I remember once having to stop performing when I thought
an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually
going to die because he was laughing so hard.
- Adrian Edmondson
On stage, we just want to generate hysteria.
We don't care about looking cool or posing.
- Adrian Edmondson
I'm waiting for the time when I fail -
because we all fail -
and I'm ready,
I'll take up carpentry.
- Adrian Edmondson
A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool.
They feel they have to look after their image.
- Adrian Edmondson
We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off.
Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make
them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look.
- Adrian Edmondson
From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely
roaring at really good toilet humour.
- Adrian Edmondson
It's definitely time to stop.
We're getting too old.
We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be.
We were starting to look a bit ridiculous.
- Adrian Edmondson
Even though we work in the same field,
we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.
- Adrian Edmondson
Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong,
are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.
- Adrian Edmondson
I've always had a kind of visual eye,
and it was a pleasant exercise for that.
- Adrian Edmondson
Richie and Eddie couldn't exist without each other.
They're two halves of the same person.
- Adrian Edmondson
People expect us to be different, but we're not.
We're very similar people, and it's because we're so
similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh -
in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh.
- Adrian Edmondson
There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour -
people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them -
but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
- Adrian Edmondson
I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway,
but I think there's a basis to them,
and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies.
There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.
- Adrian Edmondson
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world
that we must love our enemies - or else?
The chain reaction of evil -
hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -
must be broken, or else we shall be plunged
into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those
to whom they entrust the minds of their children
a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom
they entrust the care of their plumbing.
- John F. Kennedy
One of the most feared expressions in modern times
is 'The computer is down.'
- Norman Ralph Augustine
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking
at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
- John Ciardi
The history of modern art is also the history of the
progressive loss of art's audience.
Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist
and the bafflement of the public.
- Paul Gauguin
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary
arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people
can keep all their options open all the time.
- Christopher Lasch
Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers,
while I believe in myself.
- Alain Robert
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most,
it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
- William Wordsworth
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one,
particularly if he plays golf.
- Bertrand Russell
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window,
except that the birds might eat them.
- Martin Henry Fischer
Modern medicine is a negation of health.
It isn't organized to serve human health,
but only itself, as an institution.
It makes more people sick than it heals.
- Ivan Illich
In modern war...
you will die like a dog for no good reason.
- Ernest Hemingway
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.
Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
- Ambrose Bierce
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century.
It is a city frozen in time.
- Richard Meier
Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person,
defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
- Dave Barry
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's
oldest exercises in moral philosophy;
that is,
the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago,
during and immediately after World War II.
- Barry Commoner
Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.
- Oliver Hudson
It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern
movie scripts that are so poorly written.
- Jessica Lange
The printing press is either the greatest blessing
or the greatest curse of modern times,
sometimes one forgets which it is.
- E. F. Schumacher
Modern poets talk against business, poor things,
but all of us write for money.
Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
- Robert Frost
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art -
that is,
intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite,
expressed by every means available to the arts.
- Charles Baudelaire
For example, computer defends well, but for humans
its is harder to defend than attack,
particularly with the modern time control.
- Boris Spassky
However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science.
- Norman Lamm
Don't bother about being modern.
Unfortunately it is the one thing that,
whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
- Salvador Dali
It's never been confirmed that Elizabeth I was a virgin.
It's like the Virgin Mary - it's about branding,
a logo.
To use a modern term, Elizabeth was actually a bit of a slut.
- Helen Mirren
In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity
to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.
- Gordon Brown
The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how
artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies.
We're all experiments.
- Brad Holland
A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good
as its technological ability.
- Frank Whittle
Modern money is almost altogether credit money.
- John Buchanan Robinson
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism.
They have a distorted understanding of the traditional
values they claim to defend.
- Christopher Lasch
Scientific reality is the modern human condition,
and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.
- Thom Mayne
So much destruction in modern war takes place miles
and miles away from the source of the destruction,
the human being who has caused it.
- James Dickey
In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke.
- Bill Tilden
What we must understand is that the industries,
processes, and inventions created by modern science
can be used either to subjugate or liberate.
The choice is up to us.
- Henry A. Wallace
As far as modern writing is concerned,
it is rarely rewarding to translate it,
although it might be easy.
Translation is very much like copying paintings.
- Boris Pasternak
The academic area of new music or modern music festivals
is not something which attracts me at all.
- Gavin Bryars
It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note,
which sounds better?
- Dan Hicks
Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel.
Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land,
but not the state.
- Norman Lamm
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence,
and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
- John Ruskin
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world
from earlier centuries is attributable to science,
which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
- Bertrand Russell
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined;
one discovers how far one can go only by traveling
in a straight line until one is stopped.
- Norman Mailer
I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen,
and they don't take the time to learn the basics.
- Alvin Lee
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one,
and every one of its main aspects, moral,
political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
- Christopher Dawson
Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so.
It's modern.
It's a part of today's world.
- James MacArthur
The medieval university looked backwards;
it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge.
The modern university looks forward,
and is a factory of new knowledge.
- Thomas Huxley
Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence,
that theory must take into account and explain the
mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.
- Arthur Keith
Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over,
when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go,
I'd love to have said that.
- Pete Waterman
It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our
modern way of relating to one another.
- Wynton Marsalis
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