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Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English actor, satirist, writer and comedian. Cook is widely regarded as the leading light of the British satire boom of the 1960s. He was closely associated with the anti-establishment comedy that emerged in the United Kingdom and United States in the late 1950s.

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The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there.

Garden, Eden, Swamps, See, Swamp

All right, You Great Git, You've asked for it. I'll cover the world in Tastee-Freez and Wimpy Burgers. I'll fill it with concrete runways, motorways, aircraft, television, automobiles, advertising, plastic flowers, frozen food and supersonic bangs. I'll make it so noisy and disgusting that even You'll be ashamed of Yourself! No wonder You've so few friends. You're unbelievable!

Flower, Frozen, Television, Wimpy, Cover

As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.

Insignificant, Night, Realize, Sky, Stars

I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly

Exactly, Funny, Life Lesson, Mistake, Mistakes, Repeat

I didn't know dirty words could be done that artfully.

Dirty, Done, Dirty Words, Artfully, Words

If there's one thing I can't bear, it's when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle of the night and throw all manner of garbage over me. I can't bear that.

Garbage, Hundreds, Manner, Men, Middle, Night

We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages.

Statistics, Language, Frank, Exchanged, Languages

Now I tell you the downside of this is you feel awful, but the upside is you feel terrific.

Drug, Awful, Feels, Terrific, Tell

All in all I'd rather have been a judge than a miner. And what's more, being a miner, as soon as you are too old and tired and sick and stupid to do the job properly, you have to go. Well, the very opposite applies with judges. *

Jobs, Miner, Properly, Sick, Stupid, Tired

Job was what you'd technically describe as a loony.

Jobs, Technically, Job, Describe, Loony

I would like to like to make one thing clear at the very outset and that is, when you speak of a train robbery, this involved no loss of train, merely what I like to call the contents of the train, which were pilfered. We haven't lost a train since 1946, I believe it was - the year of the great snows when we mislaid a small one.

Believe, Involved, Loss, Outset, Robbery, Years

I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.

Fall, Coal Miners, Judging, Prefer, Absence, Judge

The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can see the eyes follow you around the room.

Ducks, Eye, Follow, Good, Looks, Thing

You realize that suicide's a criminal offense — In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.

Suicide, Criminals, Realizing, Times, Hung, Criminal

I've had some wonderful ideas for getting the dominating going. I've got some extremely subtle advertising slogans that should get the public behind us. Things like "Vote for EL Wisty and lovely nude ladies will come and dance with you. " It's a complete lie, of course, but you can't afford to be too scrupulous if you're going to dominate the world.

Ideas, Lovely, Lying, Scrupulous, Slogans

I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.

Done, Luxury, Ones, Poverty, Rotten, Trappings

I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it.

Surround, Universe, Interested, Specialising, Surrounds