Lionel Barrymore Quotes
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
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People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.
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At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
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You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.
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My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
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You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.
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The less people know about 'Paranormal Activity,' the more they enjoy it.
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Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.
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I was blown away watching Michael Keaton act because he was such a maniacal, evil person on set. He takes on a totally different life, and it was so amazing to watch him work.
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It's impossible in heptathlon to have a proper rivalry - you're spending two days together and seven events and dedicate your life to it. It's like a marathon: two days of mental and physical exhaustion.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
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If one sibling does something, the other will fill the opposite role. I found, at least for my brother and I in real life, that seems to be a thing.
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You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through
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White was the most fashionable color among the nobility and the rich. Because, of course, white is so easily dirtied, and only the wealthy would do little enough that it could not be spoiled.
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Any guy in his right mind would die to play Batman.
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I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.
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If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.
