Barry Hughart Quotes
A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority.Barry Hughart
Quotes to Explore
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
Ursula Burns -
You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
Nathan Fillion -
I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
D. B. Weiss -
I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.
Adam Brody -
If you get conquered by ego, then you are losing the fight.
Edgar Ramirez
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For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.
Kate Burton -
I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.
Irving Paul Lazar -
When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.'
C. S. Lewis -
As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old.
Walter Murch -
You can't consider a president weak because he will have a Congress that Mexican voters have wanted to be co-responsible in the decisions to be taken... It will be through the leadership that I will exercise that we will be able to build the agreements in Congress.
Enrique Pena Nieto -
Alternative accommodations is a $100 billion-plus category.
Dara Khosrowshahi
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If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to.
Kesha -
I feel like anything I've ever done, I've been strongly advised not to do.
Dasha Zhukova -
I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.
Anton du Beke -
We have one of the highest interest rates in the world, and we owe more money per capita than any other country. All we need is a nail hole in the bottom of the boat and we're sunk.
Pauline Hanson -
A clear lesson of history is that a 'sine qua non' for sustained economic recovery following a financial crisis is a thoroughgoing repair of the financial system.
Janet Yellen -
It's really tough to be an active member of your church when you travel so much, but that's the stuff that keeps you going.
Andy Mineo
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If someone's OK with being the 'transgender girl,' that's fine, but that's not me.
Jazz Jennings -
It's very normal - when you're not used to the world of the high wire, it's very normal to be simply terrified. The reason I'm not is because I've done it for so many years.
Philippe Petit -
It's strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man's mind for so many years. Yet those memories can be awakened and brought forth fresh and new, just by something you've seen, or something you've heard, or the sight of an old familiar face.
Wilson Rawls -
I loved Internet businesses, having built and sold one. And I loved the financial business, despite the fact that it was almost all a scam.
James Altucher -
A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority.
Barry Hughart