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If I were Achilles I would put my foot in a f**k off block of concrete!

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Eddie Izzard
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 7
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If you get too well-known, you can never be a comedian's comedian, it just won't sit well. But I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that label.
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We have two hundred languages in Europe. Two hundred languages! Count them! I know you won't!
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I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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San Francisco! City of dreaming spires, people live here... Golden Gate Bridge, ahh the Romans came here.
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Your eyes flashed fire into my soul. I immediately read the words of Dostoyevsky and Karl Marx, and in the words of Albert Schweitzer, I FANCY YOU!
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I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.
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