Barry Humphries Quotes
I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them.
Quotes to Explore
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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I love bayou life.
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The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I'm trying to be one of the greatest players, so whatever level that consists of is where I want to take my game.
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People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.
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I did my acting performance in 'Roger Rabbit.' I think I did a voice-over also in 'Osmosis Jones' and I directed an episode of my show years ago, 'Tales from the Crypt' and that's my endeavors in the non-producer oriented ranks.
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A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking; and even dreams themselves may be turned to beauty, by favoured men to whom nature has given the powers of casting them into form.
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I've always found when I was captain when other people were doing the talking for me, I didn't need to say as much, and when I did say one or two things, people tended to listen all the more.
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I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them.
