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I grew up in Solihull, on the edge of what was then the Birmingham conurbation. It was a good place to write comedy from. I didn't feel allegiance to anything. I didn't have working-class pride or upper-class superiority.


Stewart Lee

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STEWART UDALL I love cities. New York, Montreal, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne...
STEWART BUTTERFIELD Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify t...
MATTHEW STEWART Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag an...
PAYNE STEWART The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
AL STEWART I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today.
MARTHA STEWART People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' a...
STEWART COPELAND In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adap...
MARTHA STEWART In my life, there have been people that I was convinced would be around forever, and yet, somehow th...
ALANA STEWART The more storage you have, the more stuff you accumulate.
ALEXIS STEWART Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business...
STEWART UDALL I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing....
MARTHA STEWART I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, th...
JON STEWART I have planted over 6,000 trees at home in Scotland, some of them oak. I'd like my children to b...
RORY STEWART About 80 percent of the photos on Flickr are public and searchable by everyone. In one sense, it'...
STEWART BUTTERFIELD I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof.
KRISTEN STEWART Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
POTTER STEWART Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
POTTER STEWART To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
POTTER STEWART In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal...
POTTER STEWART Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.
POTTER STEWART A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give...
POTTER STEWART It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, bu...
POTTER STEWART The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have ...
POTTER STEWART The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands th...
POTTER STEWART I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.
POTTER STEWART Fairness is what justice really is.
POTTER STEWART Why is it that if you take advantage of a corporate tax break you're a smart businessman, but if...
JON STEWART I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.
KRISTEN STEWART Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I alway...
STEWART O'NAN Wherever I was in the world, at the beginning of every consulting project, one thing was certain: I ...
MATTHEW STEWART