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"People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift."
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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
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"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
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"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."
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"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
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"Happy the people whose annals are vacant."
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"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."
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"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."
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"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."
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"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."
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"No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good."
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"I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening."
Reassurance
"People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift."
People
"When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion."
Day
"It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road."
People
"I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression."
People
"My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift."
Impression
"If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it."
Computer
"I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage."
Home
"I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education."
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"Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column."
Now
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