Clive Barker Quotes
If we have nothing to do but service our own pleasure – because society has taught us that's all we're worth and we're exiled from positions of authority from which we could actually shape society – then we just become hedonists. Eventually, despite how great it may look on Saturday night, come Monday morning there's just purposelessness.
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Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
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Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources... India's requirements and Canada's surplus are a perfect match.
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Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.
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I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.
Garry Kasparov -
The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.
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I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'
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That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.
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I'm being hypocritical because I have a Twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, 'Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious,' because, who cares?
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Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.
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I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.
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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.
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When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'
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I'm always like, 'Well, let's not rest on a critical acclaim or on a incredible review or on a great reception.'
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An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
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Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.
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If I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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I was offered 'Pretty Woman.' I was offered 'Big' and 'Dead Poets Society.' But what was important to me in those years was to make movies, to make these Albert Brooks movies.
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There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man’s courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared.
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I quite like the transitions of being an actor, because you get to explore these little pockets of life. So if you're playing a builder you get to know about building, if you're playing a scientist or a physician or something you get to know about physics. And similarly with this world I like exploring their culture, that very sort of upper middle class, addictive... that's part of the reason I love it.
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That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.
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I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine.
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If we have nothing to do but service our own pleasure – because society has taught us that's all we're worth and we're exiled from positions of authority from which we could actually shape society – then we just become hedonists. Eventually, despite how great it may look on Saturday night, come Monday morning there's just purposelessness.
