Barry Lyga Quotes

Fear can keep you alive. The trick is not to let it overwhelm you. Not to let it rule you. If you’re afraid, that’s the universe trying to tell you something. Get away. Don’t run; don’t panic. Just pick up and walk out, calm as you please. Panic makes you stupid.

Barry Lyga

• Fear
• Universe
• Stupid
• Trick
• Panic

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• I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Kindness

• I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Computers
  • Cursed

• I can paint in jail.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • I Can
  • Paint
  • Jail

• I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Work
  • Foreign
  • Stunts

• The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Business
  • Political
  • Drunk

• I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Why
  • Truth

• I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Love
  • Expect
  • Expecting

• Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Focusing purely on extremism, whether in the Arab-Islamic world or the West, will not alleviate the root causes of tensions between members of different cultures. It will only alienate those who do not recognise themselves in those stereotypes, and generate fear and misunderstanding.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • World
  • Different
  • Fear

• It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • People
  • Movie

• I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.

  

  Chris O'Donnell
  • Peace

• 'Divorce' was kind of strange because I was going in and out of doing it while doing different movies! So, I kept returning to a set character and this set gig, and that was kind of interesting for me as an actor.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • Different
  • Character
  • Interesting

• We need to eat and enjoy it but control it. That's what I do now.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Control

• Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.

  

  Maureen Reagan
  • Women
  • Money
  • Taken

• I'm drawn to people who look different. I'm not exploiting. I'm not making fun of them. I'm drawn to them.

  

  Amy Sedaris
  • People
  • Different
  • Fun

• Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from.

  

  Wiz Khalifa
  • People

• I definitely consider myself a Christian. There's things that I believe in, there's things I have a self-belief on. I know I got a great relationship with God and the universe. I just believe in being a righteous person and karma. Doing unto others as you would have done unto you. I really want to help teach that.

  

  Big Sean
  • Great
  • God
  • Believe

• I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions.

  

  Joe Pantoliano
  • Children

• People who are offended by the Ten Commandments have a deeper problem than the stone that it's written on, I think.

  

  Judy Martz
  • People
  • Written
  • Offended

• At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Waking

• I've been married for 46 years, and I live in a nice house, my grass is always cut, I pay my bills, and my cat loves me!

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Live
  • House
  • Nice

• But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Believe
  • Mean
  • Stupid

• Fear can keep you alive. The trick is not to let it overwhelm you. Not to let it rule you. If you’re afraid, that’s the universe trying to tell you something. Get away. Don’t run; don’t panic. Just pick up and walk out, calm as you please. Panic makes you stupid.

  

  Barry Lyga
  • Fear
  • Universe
  • Stupid