Barry Humphries Quotes

I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

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• No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.

  

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• To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.

  

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• It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

  

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• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

  

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• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

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• I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

  

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• I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

  

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• We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.

  

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• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

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• People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

  

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• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

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• You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.

  

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• Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

  

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• If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.

  

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• True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

  

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• It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.

  

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• Let us be clear: the Yemeni revolution has already brought internal stability to a state riddled with war and conflict.

  

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• This act is engraved in my mind deeper than any other experience in my two tours in Vietnam. A huge black enlisted man, clad only in shorts and boots, hands bigger than dinner plates, reached into my helicopter to pick up one of the dead white soldiers. He had tears streaming down his face and he tenderly cradled that dead soldier to his chest as he walked slowly from the aircraft to the medical station.

  

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• Punk rock and skateboarding took the 'school' out of living your life, and I related to learning as I went, doing a lot of different things that I liked, when I liked. Consequently, I'm mediocre at all of the above, but still stoked on being a lifetime student of music, skating, painting, writing, etc.

  

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• I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.

  

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• I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Worse