John Barrymore Quotes
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
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I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
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I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
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The project of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is exactly that: to assert the beautiful, bountiful, chaotic complexity of one black American male. And, by extension, all black American males.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.
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I don't write historical novels but novels that wonder, 'And what if it happened in this way and not in this other one?'
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I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
