K. K. Barrett Quotes
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.
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It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.
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The truth is that I don't work any harder than anyone else in the world. I don't work 18-hour days. I don't stay up until 4 in the morning trying to finish a line.
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I think gender parity is a crucial part of any healthy society. It's applicable to the entire world.
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Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you!
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For lack of a better word, I've let love and infatuation emasculate me.
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Ignoring expectations makes you look at the world in a fresh way.
