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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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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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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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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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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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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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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From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry.
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I've had hard coaches all my life.
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The Lord will make much more out of your life than you can by yourself.
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I read recently that someone set up a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Robots in America. The idea being that if something robotic can have responsibilities then it should also have rights.
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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.
