Barry Webster Quotes
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
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Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can get away with usage-based pricing, and where there is a strong rationale for making it cheap, yet not free.
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You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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I've always had problems with guys!
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here - like Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Jay McShann. I watched those guys jam in different places and heard a lot of things - but I couldn't do what they did. They were too good.
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Is it true that the American people are war-weary? Absolutely. We are tired of sending our sons and daughters to distant lands year after year after year, to give their lives trying to transform foreign nations.
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I'm used to doing independent film where the style is a lot more casual. With improvising, you obviously find so much out on the day - and in a way, I feel more comfortable doing that.
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A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.
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Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.
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The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.
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I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.
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It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such calculations.
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People usually spend the first two months playing themselves up, not really being themselves. You waste those two months - and then they tell you, 'You're not who I was dating the first month!'
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You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.
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It is 60 years since the restoration of diplomatic relations, but relations between Japan and Russia have much deeper roots. In all, our diplomatic ties date back 150 years, more than 150 years now.
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I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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As a man I'd been a cool customer. As a woman I was a hot tamale.
