Barry Hannah Quotes

I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.

Barry Hannah

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• The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Safety

• I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Happiness

• Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Shoulder

• I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Up
  • City
  • Fashion

• I was an English major in college!

  

  Maggie Siff
  • College
  • English
  • Major

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Yourself
  • Loved
  • Hated

• When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • American
  • Think
  • Chicago

• I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Health

• Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Game
  • Death
  • Cure

• Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Career
  • Wish

• It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • People
  • Real
  • Question

• Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Earth
  • Fate
  • Fly

• I love rock n' rollers.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Love
  • Rock
  • I Love

• I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Friends
  • Lunch

• It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Alone
  • Moral
  • Balance

• Let's create a legal system that can work.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Work
  • System
  • Legal

• The public has been told repeatedly that terrorism is 'evil,' which it undoubtedly is, and that 'evildoers' are responsible for it, which doubtless they are. But beyond these justifiable condemnations, there is a historical void.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Evil
  • Beyond
  • Void

• I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here.

  

  Zoe Lofgren
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime felt, we should always, at the conclusion of the rebuke, add some kind words. We must heal wounds, as the Samaritan did, with wine and oil. But as oil floats above all other liquors, so meekness should predominate in all our actions.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Words
  • Wine
  • Crime

• I think the movie Light of the World will help a lot of pastors.  It should get a lot of people sold-uh, saved.

  

  Jack Chick
  • People
  • World
  • Movie

• There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

  

  Dante Alighieri

• Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important.

  

  Kendrick Meek
  • Important
  • American
  • Health

• I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • American
  • Light
  • Audience