Stewart Lee quotes

“I’m just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative or remarkable.”
-- Stewart Lee

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“If political correctness has achieved one thing, it’s that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative language”
-- Stewart Lee

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“I was sorry to see the News of the World go down, I think it was a great campaigning newspaper. Who can forget the News of the World's high profile campaign against child sex offenders which led to News of the World readers burning down the home of a paediatrician, throwing rocks at a pedalo, stamping on a centipede.”
-- Stewart Lee

Source : "Carpet Remnant World". Comedy, 2012.

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“In the past few months I've become religious, I've started to believe in god, creationism and intelligent design, and the reason that I now believe in god and creationism and intelligent design is because of Professor Richard Dawkins. Because when I look at something as complex and intricate and beautiful as Professor Richard Dawkins, I don't think that just could've evolved by chance! Professor Richard Dawkins was put there by god to test us, like fossils. And facts.”
-- Stewart Lee

Source : "Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle/ Religion". Comedy, April 2009.

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“I knew about things like Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground, weirdly, before I knew about David Bowie. I didn't know what David Bowie was, when I was a kid. I thought he was like Visage.”
-- Stewart Lee

Source : Source: thequietus.com

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“Generally, a lot of the things people think are made up are real, a lot of the things people think are real are made up, a lot of the things people think are spontaneous are cleverly faked, and a lot of the things people think are fake are spontaneous.”
-- Stewart Lee

Source : Source: thequietus.com

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“I’m just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative or remarkable.”
-- Stewart Lee

Source : Stewart Lee (2010). “How I Escaped My Certain Fate”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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“I'm really glad I'm not on Twitter. Because I'd have to be answering things that I didn't really know anything about, and I'd rather just wait for the dust to settle and then say something.”
-- Stewart Lee

Source : Source: thequietus.com

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“Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.”

Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art")". Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.

“Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.”

“When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.”

“Life is confusing. We're all just trying to get on with it, that's all.”

“He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God.”

“To justify God's ways to man.”

“You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.”

“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967

“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”

Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.

“It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.”