Barry Long Quotes
Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.
Quotes to Explore
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.
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I split my commission and personal work about 50 per cent each. It is important to get that balance in life.
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Still often interventionist, convinced of our importance in the world, even those of us born long after 1900 live in a country that is much more Victorian than we think.
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I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.
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We've got in the habit of not really understanding how freedom was in the 19th century, the idea of government of the people in the 19th century. America commits itself to that in theory.
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But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
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It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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Secrets of the cosmos will begin to unravel. I, for one, can't wait.
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Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
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These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.
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God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
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I don't think anyone can measure up to what my father had achieved. I'm just happy to at least play some of his music, but he is really the one who was the pioneer, the one who started all this. He's really The King.
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The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
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My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.
