John Barrymore Quotes
When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.
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I've been making some more electronic music, which I really enjoy doing.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.
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A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.
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Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
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I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'
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I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.
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It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.
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To such a memorial as exists here we can only come in a spirit of humility and of gratitude. We can not hope to repay those whom we are assembled to honor. They were moved by a noble conception of human possibilities and human destiny. But we can undertake to find what was their inspiration and seek to make it our guide. By that they will be recompensed.
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I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.
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I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn't understand it then, but now, now I understand it.
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When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
