Barry Long Quotes
No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.
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A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.
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When you're in a relationship with a photographer, and they start abusing that relationship and being like, 'I want you to do this, and I want you to do that,' it makes you go, 'No.' I didn't want to work all the time.
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But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.
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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
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Tritt listened placidly, clearly understanding nothing, but content to be listening; while Odeen, transmitting nothing, was as clearly content to be lecturing.
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The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.
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I miss 'Mad Men,' but I can't complain because I got a lot of public awareness from it, and it led on to film offers such as 'Sherlock.'
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The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them.
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He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.
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I adapted an O. Henry short story called 'By Courier,' which got nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar.
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No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.
