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I pay taxes in three countries, but can't vote in any of them.

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Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.
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Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold even fewer.
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I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.
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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.
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I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.
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Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist
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I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.
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My first professional job was appearing in a disastrous theatre production of Oh, What a Lovely War in Leicester Rep, shortly after leaving Cambridge.
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Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?
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I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.
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No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.
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