Courtney Barnett Quotes
If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
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I would see anything by Antony Gormley.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
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By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
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I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.
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Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.
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I know that when a fighter is out of the ring for more than two years, when he comes back he isn't the same anymore. Each fighter is different. But each must think, even if something goes wrong, 'I have to make this decision and live with it for the rest of my life.'
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Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.
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Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!
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There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.
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The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football.
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If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.
