Barry Humphries Quotes

When people laugh at me, they are not laughing in the way that they normally would at a comedian. They are laughing with relief, because the truth has been spoken, and political correctness has not strangled this particular gigastar.

Barry Humphries

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On 'Platoon' I was offered in 1984 a very tiny part that Ivan Kane would go on to play. Then the financing fell out, and the film was scuttled for two years.

John C. McGinley

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Art is the triumph over chaos.

John Cheever

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Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

John F. Kennedy

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A lot of the time in modern Britain, certainly in urban life, we barely have any contact at all with the people around us.

John Lanchester

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I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting, you used another name.

John le Carre

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You might say those who can't repay their student debts shouldn't have borrowed in the first place. But they had no way of knowing just how bad the jobs market would become.

Robert Reich

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When you're younger, you get shoved a lot. You don't really have a say-so.

Solange Knowles

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People have used my views for purposes which are very different from mine.

Ronald Coase

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Somehow I have managed to delay looking old. In reality I have good genes.

Michael Schumacher

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I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.

Dree Hemingway

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I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras.

Bobby McFerrin

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I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

Arthur Wing Pinero

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