Barry McDonald Quotes
Show me a dog who still cannot perform a task after it has been trained over and over again, and I'll tell you who the slow learner is.
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No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.
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I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to.
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It has been said that the body is like an automobile - it's yours, but it isn't you.
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You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.
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I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.
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The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.
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The questions you ask consistently will create either enervation or enjoyment, indignation or inspiration, misery or magic. Ask the questions that will uplift your spirit and push you along the path of human excellence
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God loves us too much to pretend our sin isn't there. Sin is a cancer and Christ the surgeon. True prayer signs the consent form.
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The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the best sense of the moral, and the doubter often the best sense of the religious.
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You know something, man? Some day I'm gonna be walking up the street one way and you're gonna be coming down the other way, and we're gonna pass each other and I'm gonna say 'Hello, best white band in the world and you're gonna say 'Hello, best colored band in the world.
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Oh! if people were but acquainted with piety, they would not fear it so much, or give it so unattractive a character; 'tis the balm of life, and perhaps in the world it is believed to consist of bitterness, harshness, uncouthness; but, take my word for it, nothing is more gentle, more yielding, more loving than a pious soul.
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He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made.
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For athletes traditionally it's such a fantastic stepping stone to greater things down the track and in the future. Don't undermine the Commonwealth Games!
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Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.
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When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'
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We are each other's reference point at our turning points.
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We've just got to understand that (tonight) is a different day and we've got to perform better than we did (Wednesday) night.
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Show me a dog who still cannot perform a task after it has been trained over and over again, and I'll tell you who the slow learner is.
