Barry Sheene Quotes
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.
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The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.
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I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.
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I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.
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My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job.
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I decided to do everything around fashion but fashion itself, and that's accessories.
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So I decided on science when I was in college.
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I want not, that everybody hears about. Then I can't longer be myself.
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Then you'd have found me pinned beneath a large metal pipe.
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Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.
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Despite what you hear about the publishing industry being a fixed game that you can only get in if you know somebody, I'm here in person to tell you it ain't so. If your stuff is really any good, sooner or later some editor will take a chance on you.
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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
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If I can't go to my parents, then my parents come to me.
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The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.
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I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.
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I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel that has the identity of that place - Claridge's in London, the Danieli or Cipriani in Venice. In New York, I stay at the Mercer Hotel; it is so much in the character of SoHo.
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You do certain things in your twenties that are just not appropriate in your thirties and certainly not appropriate in your forties. Eventually you even the scales, and it's time to move on and become an adult and start working hard again and going to sleep a little bit earlier. Fortunately, I got a job to facilitate that transition.
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I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'
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As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
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My co-stars call me selfish. They say, 'You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera.' I reply, 'I can't help it; it's what got me where I am.'
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He gave me an excuse, and I didn't buy it.
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I decided there and then to sue the bastards.
