Billy Barty Quotes

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.

Billy Barty

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 25, 1924 - December 23, 2000

Topics

DreamsHistoryPeopleBornEveryone

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

Jock Sturges

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A lot of movies were influenced by 'Logan's Run,' like 'Minority Report'. A lot of films have those elements in them.

Joel Silver

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I want people to be the authors of their own life story.

Michael Gove

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We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are gay. And we need to love, affirm and all of us together work on the real problems that we have in the world.

Rob Bell

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In truth, there is no rational argument for guns in this society. This is no longer a frontier nation in which people hunt their own food. It is a crowded, overwhelmingly urban country in which letting people have access to guns is a continuing disaster.

Molly Ivins

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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

KindnessHeartCompassionWiseMind

Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.

Debi Gliori

TimePlacesOutOwnUsMachines

Normally, if you're lucky, the idea of a film you have in your head is more or less what you get back when you see it after the editing and the whole post-production process.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

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I was with Tom Wolfe at the launch of Apollo 17, which led him to 'The Right Stuff.'

Annie Leibovitz

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Composers are always going back to the past.

Anne Dudley

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I know what it feels like to love and care about things, but I've never had that instinct to have kids.

Allison Janney

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