Barry Humphries Quotes

I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.

Barry Humphries

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My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

Jimmy Wales

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Oh my God, my girlfriends are everything to me. They celebrate with you, they cry with you, they hold you when you need to be held. They laugh with you. They're mean with you! They're always there, and it's just a priceless thing to have.

Jennifer Lopez

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My clothes and my interiors are about making people smile.

Matthew Williamson

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I've just kind of been used to carrying movies. I look back and I'm just used to being in every single scene in a lot of pictures.

Michael Douglas

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I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

Stephen King

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I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing that in the cross of Christ, war has been abolished.

Stanley Hauerwas

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I don't know why anybody would be in awe of me.

Shirley MacLaine

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Most of my freshman year at USC, I'd just been partying, and I had zero direction.

Topher Grace

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Sometimes you shoot for 40 or 50 hours for a one-hour show, and you have to make some very hard choices.

Louis Theroux

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I saw my potential as artistic director, which is very different from designer. Fashion companies might have $200 million to $300 million in annual sales - Hugo Boss has €2.5 billion. I have to create a world that is believable and also relevant in 7,000 sales points around the world.

Jason Wu

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It's just nice to be employed.

David Walton

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If I go play 'Modern Warfare,' I'll find a hundred different things I'd like done differently. And I don't have the discipline to not express my opinion.

Bobby Kotick

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