Clive Barnes Quotes
It benefits from its nine-person cast, superb from top to bottom, and, let's face it, expectations so reduced as to be almost minimal.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
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I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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My parents aren't married. And one of the reasons why they never got married is because they had been married before, and they liked it the way it was. They didn't feel like they needed a piece of paper to be committed. So for me, I know that marriage is not a golden ticket.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
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A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
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You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
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Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.
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I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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This feeling of accountability, which is encompassed by the first great commandment to love God, has been described by some as 'obedience to the unenforceable.' [John Fletcher Moulton.] We try to do what is right because we love and want to please our Father in Heaven, not because someone is forcing us to obey.
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Children are wonderful. It don't take plenty y'know. Just a nice girl who don't take birth control. Sexual intercourse is a lovely thing.
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There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.
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It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.
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It benefits from its nine-person cast, superb from top to bottom, and, let's face it, expectations so reduced as to be almost minimal.
