Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.
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I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
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I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packed lunches so healthful that they had no takers in the grand swap-fest of the lunchroom.
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I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.
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The long term ultimate objective – the holy grail – is we would like to help make life multi-planetary.
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Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist?
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The fact that the commercial success of my books has allowed me to buy a house for myself and my daughter I think is a lovely thing. I don't think there is anything wrong with that.
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I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.
