Clive Barker Quotes
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
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If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.
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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
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There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.
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You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
Garry Kasparov
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Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day.
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I believe that Bitcoin is going to change the way that everything works. I want entrepreneurs to tell me how its going to change. Build the equivalent of an Iron Man suit with Bitcoin.
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It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.
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My mother once told me never be a second-rate version of somebody else when you can be a first-rate version of yourself.
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I don't necessarily believe that the sting of failure is a bad thing. It gives you a certain amount of freedom to just say fuck it!
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Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
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There was something about the cocksure confidence of that statement that gave Auger goose pimples. It was like an invitation to fate.
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When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.
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I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
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I just feel like you're being realistic if you can laugh at yourself.
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Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.
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I think it's a good thing that we can have relatively non-partisan political conversations because I don't think that my premier necessarily should agree with everything the federal NDP says. I don't think she should disagree with everything the federal Conservatives say. I think that Albertans and Canadians as a whole, as I always say, are looking for pragmatic politicians with pragmatic solutions to their problems, and they want the best ideas to move forward, regardless of who has that idea.
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Suzanna didn’t wait for confirmation. There was no use disbelieving the worst now.
