Barry Long Quotes
The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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What can you do? You're never going to be - I'm sure there are people out there who think Cindy Crawford isn't pretty.
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It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Jeans fit the mature male one of two ways, both dirigible in nature. You make a public impression that's either Hindenburg or Goodyear blimp.
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If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.
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I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.
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The goal can never be reached unless a man makes his mind strong, and firmly resolves that he must realise God in this very birth, nay, this very moment.
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We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries…I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.
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Commuter - one who spends his lifeIn riding to and from his wife;A man who shaves and takes a trainAnd then rides back to shave again.
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‘…The senior Mr Denham’s,’ he said, with deadly Eastern realism, ‘will perhaps only be better in the grave.
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'When you think about it from a native plant perspective,' Oyster says.'Johnny Apple seed was a fucking biological terrorist.'
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At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.
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There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought.
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I certainly never pictured myself even attending the Academy Awards, much less winning at 56. I very, very happily settled into a theater career. I did more than that, but I let all of my agents and people go. I said, 'I don't want to be promoted in film anymore. I have enough to do in the theater, so I'm just going to carry on.'
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There's this notion that artists are supposed to be dumb and frivolous. I completely disagree with that.
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The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.
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People think that theater actors are too big for the camera. It's like, 'No, we're actors and we adjust for our audience.'
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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
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The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.
