Keith Barry Quotes
I don't pretend that I can read minds. I don't believe anybody can read minds. In other words, I don't believe in psychics.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.
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I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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America is our biggest market, and I really do believe if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.
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I believe that first impressions are very important.
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What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
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I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.
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I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
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I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn't matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage.
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As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
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I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.
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From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.
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Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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Red lips and fragrance always top off an outfit for me.
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Music, to me, was - is - representative of everything I like most in life. It's beautiful and fun, but very rigorous. If you wanted to be good you had to work like crazy. It was a real relationship between effort and reward. My musical life experiences were just as important to me, in terms of forming my development, as my political experiences or my academic life.
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I think fiction allows us to sit for a while with people we would rather not meet.
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Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.
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I don't pretend that I can read minds. I don't believe anybody can read minds. In other words, I don't believe in psychics.
