Chris Barrie Quotes
To be honest I think my read is people are now taking this seriously. They realise that the game is up and the planet and all of us - I mean all of us - have to really start doing something much more drastic in order to try and contain the impacts.
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Some men think that if you're empowered and sure of yourself then you're a man-hater, but it's like, 'No, I'm just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.'
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We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement.
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I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea.
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With our growing attachment to the online universe comes a refined ability to keep tabs on several things at once, to watch stories unfold on parallel planes.
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My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King.
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The beloved objects that we had carried with us from place to place were now left behind in the wagon and, with them, finally, our illusions.
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Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
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I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.
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We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.
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I grew up listening to old soul
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Single men never have any problems. I suppose that the public builds some kind of idea from what they've seen of me on the screen.
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Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
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Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.
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Be curious about life, and cautious with it!
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To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to be more than just funny, and more than just jokes about human gaseousness.
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The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera.
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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I was a very special child. I did stand-up comedy. I did it all. My family didn't understand. 'Aren't you tired?' I'm like, 'No.' I'm like an insomniac, I hardly sleep, I'm always on the move.
