John Barrymore Quotes
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
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It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I'm just going to go out there and contribute the best I can.
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I normally stay away from horror films; I tend to do light and happy roles.
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And yet these things for which we should strive eagerly, things so closely akin to ourselves, so truly our own, we treat with great slackness and constant indifference and thus destroy the germs of excellence, while those things in which deficiency were a merit we desire with an insatiable yearning.
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Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
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The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.
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Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
