Barry Humphries Quotes

I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism - aren't they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible. And I'm a little bit politically incorrect.

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• In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

  

  Park Chan-wook
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• Trump's campaign slogan resonates strongly with a large population of Americans. 'Make America Great Again' portrays a nostalgia for what America once was, and a longing desire to return to that time. Millennials unfortunately don't know first-hand that time which Trump is talking about.

  

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• Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

  

  Pat Riley
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• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

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• Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
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• If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
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• The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.

  

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• I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

  

  Carlos Ponce
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• We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what's high quality and what's not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There's a lot of technical challenges in that.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
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• Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.

  

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• I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.

  

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• Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
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• An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
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• The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.

  

  Ian Smith
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• Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

  

  Sam Abell
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• I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.

  

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• To be at the Oscars for 'American Sniper' and then also supporting Red Carpet Green Dress is just twice as cool for me.

  

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• I believe in less government interference in people's personal lives, including whom to marry, when and whether to bear a child and how to raise kind and compassionate children.

  

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• I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what "demonstrate" means, and went back to my law studies.

  

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• I see in the melody of Nature, God. It is a wonderful work of art. The spirit of the art is wonderful. And I feel that I am myself because I have never taken music lightly. Music is the manifestation of God, like everything else.

  

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• I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.

  

  Nathan Fillion
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• I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism - aren't they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible. And I'm a little bit politically incorrect.

  

  Barry Humphries
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