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Quotes from David Baddiel

Because I've been around for quite a long time and done a lot of different stuff, there's a shifting idea of who I am.
~ David Baddiel
I can't bear the idea that I might be in any way deluded about myself.
~ David Baddiel
I cook roasts and pasta and curries and all sorts of things - generally things that aren't one composite thing, like a cake is.
~ David Baddiel
When you get older, you are told constantly that you should be there for your parents' deaths, otherwise you will regret it. But what we are not prepared for is a sudden, brutal death that you are there for, with medical people shouting and things bleeping and your parent gasping for breath.
~ David Baddiel
Mum died on a Saturday - apparently that's quite common. Dad already had dementia, and my brother and I had to let him know the news. Forty-five minutes later we had to tell him again. We spent the whole of that Sunday reminding him over and over.
~ David Baddiel
For a long time, I used to think that I had a man's brain that I thought more like a man than a woman. But now I've come to realise that whatever it is I do think like, it's not like men; because men don't really think like men, they think like boys.
~ David Baddiel
That's the thing about your destiny how are you supposed to know when it arrives? How are you supposed to recognise it from random life?
~ David Baddiel
He offered me some free cheese too," said Stewart. "Sounded quite nice." "NEVER MIND FREE ********56 CHEESE,
~ David Baddiel
Yeet!" said Jack, shambling out of his room. "Walking is for Normies. It's a dank meme.
~ David Baddiel
Jews are somehow both sub-human and humanity's secret masters. And it's this racist mythology that's in the air when the left pause before putting Jews into their sacred circle.
~ David Baddiel
We live in a culture now where impact is more important than intent; where how things are taken is more significant than how they are meant.
~ David Baddiel
law of Schrödinger's Whites, a brilliant conceit that I am not responsible for, in which Jews are white or non-white depending on the politics of the observer, in this context Krug's Jewishness enhances the story.
~ David Baddiel
A study by the non-partisan wealth research firm New World Wealth found that 56.2 percent of the 13.1 million millionaires in the world were Christian, while 6.5 percent were Muslim, 3.9 percent were Hindu, and 1.7 percent were Jewish. In the U.S., 48 percent of Hindus have a yearly household income of $100,000 or more, and 70 percent have at least $75,000, which makes them the highest-earning ethnic group. But
~ David Baddiel
Strictly Come Dancing
~ David Baddiel
Jezza, Tezza, Mezza, Hezza, Quezza, Smezza, Sea Anemonezza and Dave:
~ David Baddiel
Kirsty White.
~ David Baddiel
Your son having to have a poo-team," said Mrs Stokes. "I've never heard of that before in such a young person. So, where are they? How many people normally help him go to the toilet?
~ David Baddiel
DARK FORCES OF THE CONDIMENT ARE
~ David Baddiel
wasn't sure how to take this. "But … you're meant to bring me my tea. Then, in the
~ David Baddiel
We live in a culture now where impact is more important than intent; where how things are taken is more significant than how they are meant. You have to listen to the people being talked about rather than the talker – and the power, throughout history, has tended to be with the talker, the person with the platform, rather than the talked-about, who are usually the ones affected.
~ David Baddiel
why a difference in kind should equate to a difference in significance.
~ David Baddiel
As it happens, I look at that picture, and damn, he looks like family to me, too. But I know I would only be trolled on
~ David Baddiel
of a munchkin. And it took her so long to walk up the drive that, by the time she was actually inside the house, Alfie wondered if it was too late for his parents to go out. How on earth, he thought, is she going to look after me? And, more importantly, make sure I get through all my routines? The
~ David Baddiel
I can't really speak for the right, but it seems to me that people on the right are less bothered about a virtuous self-image.
~ David Baddiel