Barry Davies Quotes
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
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The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
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During the day, I don't wear much makeup; I only put on makeup for the show.
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Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.
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New Year's resolutions work like this: you think of something you enjoy doing and then resolve to stop doing it.
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Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.
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What man could afford to pay for all the things a wife does, when she's a cook, a mistress, a chauffeur, a nurse, a baby-sitter? But because of this, I feel women ought to have equal rights, equal Social Security, equal opportunities for education, an equal chance to establish credit.
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When other women have this same operation, it doesn't make any headlines. But the fact that I was the wife of the President put it in headlines and brought before the public this particular experience I was going through. It made a lot of women realize that it could happen to them. I'm sure I've saved at least one person maybe more.
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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
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How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.
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I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.
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They've maintained their unbeaten record between the legs.
