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Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion. — T. S. Eliot

That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out. — Harry Shearer

That which is cannot be true. — Herbert Marcuse

We're very pleased to be on a show which is known and loved around the world. — Harry Shearer

The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality. — Harry Shearer

You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards. — Harry Shearer

As there was never any question there was never any answer. — Gertrude Stein

The theater business is very much about "Hey, if you want our big blockbuster at Christmas time, you'll play our piece of crap in April." — Harry Shearer

You have to do real acting, not just do a voice. — Harry Shearer

For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures. — Harry Shearer

Nobody makes a movie thinking it's still going to be watched and talked about and quoted 20 years later. — Harry Shearer

I have a very strong visual memory of the first time I made him laugh. That was remarkable. I was like, "Oh, God, I just made Jack Benny laugh." — Harry Shearer

But that's always the way, isn't it? It's easy to be sensible for other people, but you can't always be sensible for yourself. — Alex Shearer

Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties. — Harry Shearer

I was never into candy and games and clowns. — Harry Shearer

You can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television. — Harry Shearer

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation. — Harry Shearer

Privilege has its own way of seeing the world. — Harry Shearer

The Simpsons will end as soon as Fox is able to find an 8 p.m. comedy hit to replace it - so I give us another 50 years. — Harry Shearer

I was a Political Science major. — Harry Shearer

To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will. — Harry Shearer

I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals. — Harry Shearer

Music often happens even faster than comedy in terms of the creation. — Harry Shearer

If Nixon were a Republican senator today, he would have been primaried out. — Harry Shearer

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I'd always loved radio. — Harry Shearer

The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it. — Harry Shearer

If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures. — Harry Shearer

[C. Montgomery] Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it's the purity of his evil that attracts me as a comic character. — Harry Shearer

If absolute power corrupts absolutely,
does absolute powerlessness make you pure? — Harry Shearer

Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state. — Kirkpatrick Sale