Barry Long Quotes
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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I'm a believer in things happening for a reason.
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I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.
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Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
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People don't usually compliment your character.
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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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If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
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My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
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What's really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people's careers look, but I think you never have any idea of your own, or what other people think of you.
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A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.
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I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket.
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I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.
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The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
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I'm not surprised, motherfuckers.
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As I was telling my husb- As I was telling President Bush.
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Most of the time, the truth is ugly and in your face! My observational brand of humor is very much all in your face!
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I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.
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The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
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People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.
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No religion knows the truth. Only he or she who lives it knows.
