Syd Barrett Quotes
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
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Theater dates very quickly.
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More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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Examine the history of China for 2,000 years back, and then compare it with the Western history of fifty years! Does the government of these foreign countries present such a record of generosity, benevolence, loyalty, and honesty as ours?
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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I find the business world hard.
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Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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Think before you speak, and don't say everything you think.
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I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their Klan Watch newsletters. I'm very well aware of White Power movements in America.
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I’m not anything that you think I am.
