P. T. Barnum Quotes

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

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• I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Feel
  • Husband
  • Debate

• During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Important
  • Movie

• How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • Think
  • Numbers

• The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Problems
  • Need
  • Create

• You look marvelous!

  

  Fernando Lamas
  • You
  • Look
  • Marvelous

• Time is the ultimate long tail. Even with a big wad of money up front, if something sells forever, the back end is what ultimately counts.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Done
  • America

• I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Cool

• National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Space

• I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.

  

  Barry McGee
  • People
  • Art
  • Interesting

• Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Earth
  • Humanity
  • Same

• I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.

  

  Randy Travis
  • School
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• I've always wanted to do a lot of things.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Always
  • Things
  • Wanted

• Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Try

• We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Women
  • Rock
  • Daily

• If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • World
  • Best

• My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Children
  • American

• A man is as alive as he can communicate.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Man
  • Alive
  • Communicate

• And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.

  

  Claudia Cardinale
  • Movie
  • Opportunity

• You amp things up and you speed things up, but technically, you can still be legally correct. This is the big beef I have with novels as well as television shows - it actually makes for a better show when you accommodate the truth.

  

  Marcia Clark
  • Up
  • Truth

• I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Moment
  • New York
  • Library

• God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Audience
  • Laugh

• A lot of 'Star Wars' fans who are specifically Asian never had a character they could dress up like, or they would, and people would always call them 'Asian Rey' or 'Asian fill-in-the-blank.'

  

  Kelly Marie Tran
  • People
  • Up
  • Character

• Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Pure