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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After I graduated from the University of Glasgow, I was a self-employed archaeologist going from dig to dig around Scotland, and it was not well-paid. I was an excavator, not a lecturer as well, so paying rent on a flat was tricky. In the end I decided to retrain as a journalist as I couldn't see a future in it.
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Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.
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Although a biologist, I must confess I do not understand how life came about... I consider that life only starts at the level of a functional cell. The most primitive cells may require at least several hundred different specific biological macro-molecules. How such already quite complex structures may have come together, remains a mystery to me. The possibility of the existence of a Creator, of God, represents to me a satisfactory solution to this problem.
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I decided there and then to sue the bastards.
