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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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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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I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
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Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen.
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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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Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
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Roll on, thou ball, roll on!
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.
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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.
