Barry Took Quotes
There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
Quotes to Explore
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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Dyeing my hair has become a kind of addiction. I can't see myself as anything other than blond. Once you go blond, you stay blond forever.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.
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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something.
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Life is in ourselves and not in the external.
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Americans are struck by lightning with greater frequency than they commit voter impersonation fraud, and that's the only kind of fraud that photo ID requirements could have any hope of preventing.
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'How to Train Your Dragon,' the first one, was a film I'd seen prior to being approached for the sequel. I don't often watch family animated movies, but it's one that I loved and thought was really well done: beautifully crafted storytelling.
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The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.
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There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
