Andy Barrie Quotes
I've lived in Forest Hill Village, Riverdale, Summerhill, The Annex and Cabbagetown. Finding the right neighbourhood fit in Toronto is only slightly less tricky than finding the right partner to share it with.
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
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When I think about making 'Within,' it was not a very fun experience at all.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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I don't like controversy.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
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When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
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The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.
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If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
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Race, redemption and healing - that's my thing.
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HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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Family hang-outs can go very late into the night and involve lots of music.
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It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
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Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
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When I play my match, I can't think about anything else except what I'm doing on my side of the net.
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
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And so my brother Gilbert and I, brought up without a formal religion, remained throughout our lifetimes just what Father was, freethinkers. And, likewise, doubters and dissenters and perhaps Utopians. Father's rule had been 'Question everything, take nothing for granted,' and I never outlived it, and I would suggest it be made the motto of a world journalists' association.
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I'm especially interested in what I call practitioner criticism, which is when people who practice an art form start writing about it on blogs. I think that's an immensely important development. I want to see much, much more of that. People who make music who are verbally articulate. And not all musicians are verbally articulate. But those who are should be encouraged to write about what they do and their perception of what other people do. It makes the discourse smarter.
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If you haven't got a hernia yet, you ain't pulling your share.
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I've lived in Forest Hill Village, Riverdale, Summerhill, The Annex and Cabbagetown. Finding the right neighbourhood fit in Toronto is only slightly less tricky than finding the right partner to share it with.
