Barry Farber Quotes
"You can educate a fool, but you can’t make him think. Education is too often about stuffing the brain rather than developing the mind."
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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I want to have a long career.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears. There's no sizzle, there's no grab. But it's the great lesson of serious music, that it invites you to listen, rather than demands that you listen.
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A lot of Ivy League schools have presidents who are very politically active. And I don't think it has an impact on whether a student chooses a school or a donor gives to a school.
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Families need families. Parents need to be parented. Grandparents, aunts, and uncles are back in fashion because they are necessary. Stresses on many families are out of proportion to anything two parents can handle.
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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.
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"You can educate a fool, but you can’t make him think. Education is too often about stuffing the brain rather than developing the mind."
