Chris Barnes Quotes
I've had some good fortune in this building. It's always challenging. The two sides upstairs and downstairs play differently. There's a lot of obstacles here and a lot of things that keep you on your toes. But the fans here are great and I think it's our most prestigious tournament.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
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I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
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I spend a lot of time on my music.
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I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music.
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We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there - fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways we can't even imagine.
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Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.
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I've always driven big SUVs. I'm from Maine, and there's a point to driving a big SUV in Maine. I don't really need a 4WD in L.A., but on the 405, people are crazy, and you need a tank. I like the visibility factor.
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.
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I run in the morning, lift weights in the afternoon, basketball training at night, and then lift weights again at night.
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No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
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only a matter of time before it broke through our fragile web of denial, forcing us to confront the truth and acknowledge who we are: two people in love – a love that nobody else could possibly understand.
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I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.
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This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and powerful, and to despise or, at least, neglect persons of poor and mean conditions, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.
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I've had some good fortune in this building. It's always challenging. The two sides upstairs and downstairs play differently. There's a lot of obstacles here and a lot of things that keep you on your toes. But the fans here are great and I think it's our most prestigious tournament.
