Barry Gibb Quotes
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
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I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.
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I'm not really an awards person. I've got a couple of gongs over my time, but I tend to be snubbed anyway for some reason.
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The magic in performing as an entertaining ventriloquist happens when the characters come to life and the interaction between the separate personalities on stage becomes 'real.' Then don't forget that the act has to be funny, and to me, being funny and entertaining any given audience is more important than anything.
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Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.
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I don't intend to stop making music.
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I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
