John Barrymore Quotes
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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I'm not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.
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I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.
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I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.
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Luckily, there is a wind of change happening in Hindi cinema. Good work is coming to people who are not conventionally good looking like Ranbir Kapoor or Akshay Kumar.
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For each project I do, I try to surprise myself, do the unexpected, and change my own status quo. From the One Laptop Per Child, the Herman Miller Sayl, or the latest Movado watch collection, there is always an insecurity about being able to do something important. I think each of those projects makes me feel like we have progressed.
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Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to produce the ultra-nationalist military dictatorship of General Pilsudski.
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The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
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Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom.
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I became one of the stately homos of England.
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To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day.
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Being a writer is great, and being a parent is great, and I hate Marching Band.
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Nutrition is also a valuable component that can help athletes both protect themselves and improve performance.
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No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.
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There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me.
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Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.
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Dying is the last thing I will ever do.
