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"It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?"
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"Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?"
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"I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'."
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"When you make a bet, you're saying something."
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"The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all."
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"I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested!"
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"While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying."
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"I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly."
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"Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys."
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"At least when it's in French, I won't know what the heck they're saying."
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"I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How do you get started? It's so difficult. I told him, I don't know but whatever you do don't stop. Just keep on going."
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"I think most musicians do like to have a laugh."
Humor
"When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds."
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"But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him."
Music
"I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other."
Movies
"I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways."
Being
"But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day."
Business
"We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious."
Business
"I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1."
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"Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes."
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"Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along."
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