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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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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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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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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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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Our fifth premise is that the resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.
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My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.
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If I get any private time in my trailer, all of a sudden I'm doing sit-ups and push-ups.
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You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.
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I know my dad's proud that I've done it on my own, and I'm happy with that.
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We are a trading nation, and we are trading with Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland.
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Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.
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An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
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There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism.
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When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yourself.' It's like chocolate-chip cookies. People buy the cookie-dough roll and slice it, and then they lay it on a cookie sheet. That's not making chocolate-chip cookies.
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When the U.S. team went on its historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002, I was thirteen years old. Each game in that run - the astonishing victory against Portugal, the resilient win over Mexico, even the gutsy but unlucky effort against the Germans - propelled me to push my other athletic interests aside and focus only on soccer.
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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.
