Sara Pascoe Quotes

Sara Pascoe

Profession : Comedian

Birth : May 22, 1981

For all of the separateness of church and state, Christian morality has shaped Britain and its inhabitants for a very long time.

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So why don't all religions get together and go to war with atheists? Because we all want the same thing: respect and tolerance and not to be forced to do anything we don't want to.

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Belief is invisible, so there is enough space for everyone's. Except in the shops at Christmas.

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Worse than useless, I worry e-petitions are detrimental, with their sense of catharsis and mini-activism. Channelling away agitation, giving us the opportunity to show all our Facebook friends just exactly how great we are at being compassionate.

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Comedy, surprisingly for a form that intends to bring joy and joviality, is always upsetting people. Jokes rely on broad strokes, stereotypes, caricatures, exaggerations and simplifications.

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We're all diminished and restricted by sweeping statements defining boy and girl, our expectations and disappointments with ourselves, the way we look, what we enjoy, and the choices we make.

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Bodies have a sex, but gender is a thing we made up, like your star sign or nationality. It doesn't really say anything about who you are. The destruction of gender binary would free everybody.

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Utilitarianism is a philosophy from the olden days exploring the idea that whatever is best for the majority is the fairest.

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Extensive analysis was conducted before deciding whether consumers would respond better to a male or female imprisoned in their phone. Almost every country in the world had a female Siri programmed - but not, initially, in the UK and France.

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Even quicker than the development of super-technology is the human adaptation to taking it for granted. We live in a world where regular people converse publicly with an inanimate object and escape Bedlam or a dunking.

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When I started watching comedy there was a lot of negativity about women; a lot of comics were spewing out aggressive, violent and negative material.

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I hate how old people get in my way when I'm swimming. You're trying to get into the zone and normally, if there's someone faster than you, you get out of the way, but old people don't; they're like, you can go round me. I give a little tut when I pass them.

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It sounds like a brag but I've got a separate room in my flat just for unread books; I don't let my read books touch my unread books.

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I am very short-sighted but I don't wear my glasses as they give me a headache, so if everyone could just stand closer to me that would help.

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When I was a small child we were allowed to wait up until midnight on 31 December. Then as the TV chimed, Dad would run to the front door and open it, welcoming the New Year air. This is the kind of entertainment you make in poor families, and cry to your therapist about when you're rich.

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No success will ever quench your thirst - my rich person's therapist told me that.

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