Barry Larkin Quotes

I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.

Barry Larkin

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• A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.

  

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• Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?

  

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• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
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• I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.

  

  Garth Brooks
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• One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• Though the S8, like all premium Samsung phones, runs Android with the basic Google suite of apps, Samsung keeps trying to duplicate Android functions with its own software. It wants to be a software platform like its rival Apple, but it uses someone else's operating system and core apps. Awkward.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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• Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.

  

  Zadie Smith
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• When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'

  

  Mara Wilson
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• The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

  

  Harold Nicolson
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• When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.

  

  Larry Williams
  • Life
  • Rock
  • Beginning

• Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • Song
  • Lady

• Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.

  

  Saina Nehwal
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• Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.

  

  Abraham Maslow
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• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
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• America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
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• I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.

  

  Flume
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  • Want

• When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• You never want to be the grumpy guy, although I do have quite a grumpy face.

  

  Jimmy Carr
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• My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

  

  Maria Sharapova
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• If our hard-earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be reduced to one, basic and indispensable right, it must be the right to free speech.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Free
  • Desire
  • Question

• I've been keeping journals since I was 13.

  

  Keke Palmer

• I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Career
  • Me
  • Football