#om

Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#back #been #fear #freedom #many

Some days, I'd feel better with Punxsutawney Phil in the Oval Office - at least he doesn't lie about the weather. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#better #days #feel #i #least

Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that. ↗

— Alija Izetbegovic

#chauvinism #complicated #country #lot #make

I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#comes #europe #grew #history #i

I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#cup #i #like #plastic #women

I don't believe that competitions are important. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#competitions #i #important

I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#because #being #between #character #comedy

I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#actor #because #becomes #bottom #bottom line

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#i #less #wanted #well-known

I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#because #calling #change #dresses #everyone