William Barrett Quotes
To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.
Quotes to Explore
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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I don't believe in the 100 crore club.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
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Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.
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I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me – if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.
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I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
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I haven't really done a lot of comedy. It's something that terrifies me.
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I called this press conference today to talk about a new challenge that i will face, a personal one – one that requires me, once again, to be an underdog and a fighter. A few days ago, I was diagnosed with cancer, aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkins lymphoma, to be specific – which is a cancer of the lymph nodes.
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I swear people don't want sex so much as they want somebody who'll listen to 'em … the first thing you learn after fellatio is how to listen.
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You don't get a standing ovation and get boos, by the way. They don't go hand in hand.
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There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
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There are certain things I talk to my mom and certain things I speak to dad for. But I also know that it has never been that I can tell my mum something and my dad won't know. They are very dependent on each other even though they may not say it or realise it.
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I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I don't think it comes that fast.
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Education is freedom.
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To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.
