Eric Barker Quotes
Do fewer things and do them well. Focus on the things only you can do. Do the important things which must be done now.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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If I ever had needed to put together a CV, it would be quite short. Like many young people, I'd highlight my desire to work hard.
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One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
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People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.
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I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it's food.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.
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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
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It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.
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Holidays - any holiday - are such a great opportunity to focus on bringing the family together.
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I think that having the years in college to really focus on your training is incredibly valuable. College shapes the kind of person/actor that one becomes.
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I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.
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Do fewer things and do them well. Focus on the things only you can do. Do the important things which must be done now.
