Barry White Quotes
As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
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If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.
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Since my father was a superstar, without me knowing it, I became a child star, as my father's entire fan base liked me, and I can't thank my father enough for this, as it was so effortless.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.
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It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.
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The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
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I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.
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I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
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I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. It's always been a part of me.
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My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which gives me time to write stupid books about it.
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Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!
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For me, those little cinemas in Paris where I saw many art films for the first time meant that cinema became a kind of pilgrimage site.
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I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.
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If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you!
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Goals help you overcome short-term problems.
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I have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me.
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As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
