Andrew Denton Quotes

• If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.

  Andrew Denton

  Art, Would Be, Literature

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

  Andrew Denton

  Stress, Pressure, Common

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

  Andrew Denton

  Hate, People, Individual

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We live in a society that worships youth. On television, in magazines, in advertisements and on billboards, what sells and what is sold to us is youth.

  Andrew Denton

  Magazines, Television, Youth

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• I've become a much more serious young insect.

  Andrew Denton

  Serious, Insects, Young

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.

  Andrew Denton

  Years, World, Years Ago

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think I was a feminist before the word was invented. By the time I came across feminist books by American or European writers, I realised that there was an articulate way or a language to express all these feelings that I had had for years and years and so I became a raging feminist as a young woman.

  Andrew Denton

  Book, Thinking, Years

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• I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

  Andrew Denton

  Nervous, Tension, Persons

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.

  Andrew Denton

  Country, Hate, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Comedy is a very personal thing, as you would know if you've ever told the same joke to two people and had one of them laugh their head off and the other one look at you as though you were a completely cretin.

  Andrew Denton

  Two, Laughing, People

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• A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.

  Andrew Denton

  Believe, Years, Ends

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

  Andrew Denton

  Comedy, Comic, Middle

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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