The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
ROWAN ATKINSONNope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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I’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.
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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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I have to say that I’ve always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can’t let go.
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The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness – and the other represents oppression.
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feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean’s life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
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I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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