Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes
The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
Quotes to Explore
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.
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I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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I am a shy person, basically. I don't think I can take my shirt off in front of so many people. I never thought about it. No one asked me to. But I don't even know if people like it if they see me without a shirt all of a sudden. But let's see, if a film demands it, I might just do it.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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Europe and the United States are better off extending a helping hand to those who know best rather than dictating to them an unfamiliar future.
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I definitely, really appreciate that quality that humans like to show constantly, even without saying anything, that they're with you and they're processing something.
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Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.
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The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
