"If you go all the way back to the days just following creation, men lived nine hundred years or more." — Answers to 200 of Life's most Probing Questions"

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🇬🇧Piers Morgan

Journalism

b. 1965

"There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don’t come from that school."

"The good thing is that I have always had wonderful people around me. It's dangerous when you start earning a lot of money and you become famous when you are too young."

"I fell in love with the right person, a person I know and who knows me."

"I have been discriminated against by white people for being black, by black people for being gay, by gay people for being too fem. Did I let them stop me from getting to this chair?"

"If you want me to only do things for ROI reasons then you should get out of this stock."

"AMERICA IS FALLING AT THE MOMENT YET I DO NOT SEE ANYONE IN OFFICE *AHEM* THAT IS BRAVE ENOUGH TO SAVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE LIKE HITLER WAS WILLING TO SAVE THE GERMAN PEOPLE!"

"The clitoris contains 8,000 nerve endings. It makes it easy to have sex. With yourself."

"I’ve actually broken up with boyfriends for inspiration."

"Murray Walker, at the British Film Institute's Screenonline"

"Only enormously talented people could have made Death to Smoochy. Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make a film so bad, so miscalculated, so lacking any connection with any possible audience."

"I used to suck until they were all white, let them dry, and then put them back in the packet and show my mum the Smarties with no colour on them."

"I take the shopping in, ladies and gentlemen... in one fucking go. "Get the door! Get the door!" She's like, "Shoes off!"… "FUCK OFF!"

"My fault has been honesty and I've been sentenced to a lifetime of independent movies, and that's it. That's how it feels right now."

"2002 — Царь горы / King of the Hill — Синди"

"I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion."

"The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders."

"At this point, it's not even a high-level controversy. This isn't House of Cards. Like, this isn't even Veep. It wouldn't even qualify for Blue's Clues."

"It affected me so much having to adapt to different parenting environments."

"I said I liked being half-educated; you were so much more surprised at everything when you were ignorant."

"hey wanted... another Joe Louis. A white man's black man... Didn't these idiots realize that Cassius Clay was the name of a slave owner? … Had I been black and my name Cassius Clay, I damned well would have changed it!"

"Censorship represents Fear by Big Information. 'Stopping leaks' is a new form of censorship."

"Quinn, Sally: "Christine Chubbuck: 29, Good-Looking, Educated. A Television Personality. Dead. Live and in Color ", Washington Post,"

"If you make the smokestacks out of children, who will you force to clean them?"

"I'm not allowed to say how many planes joined the raid, but I counted them all out, and I counted them all back. Their pilots were unhurt, cheerful and jubilant, giving thumbs up signs."

"The work of Carl Sagan has been a profound influence in my life, and the life of every individual who recognizes the importance of humanity's ongoing commitment to the exploration of our universe."

"The people change, the common denominator is you."

"The person I enjoyed interviewing the most was Elmo from Sesame Street because he is so unpredictable and he is always eating my hair and my face."

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