John D. Barrow Quotes
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Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.
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To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.
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I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.
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I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.
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Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
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I have to look at my career as 'it was what it was,' but I do wish there was more of it.
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I have had to learn about saying no.
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My dad taught me to kiteboard when I was 13, and around the same time, I happened to just fall into being an extra on a set and fell in love with acting and making movies.
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No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
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I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.
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Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
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Not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
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Maurice Kenny stands at the forefront of his generation. Few writers of any ethnicity are destined to be remembered in the mainstream of literary history; I believe that Kenny's contributions as a poet are among those few. He writes from the center, as our Elders would say.
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We look at young black kids with a scowl on their face, walking a certain way down the block with their sweatpants dangling, however, with their hoodies on. And folks think that this is a show of power or a show of force. But I know, because I've been among those kids, it ultimately is fear.
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Ninety per cent of my family are hairdressers, and the other 10% are construction workers.
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Ultimate explanation no longer means only a story that encompasses everything.
