"This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts."

-- Adam Smith

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“... once we played at the Fillmore opposite The Cream. Eric Clapton was there and he played his ***** off that night ... backstage Michael Bloomfield introduced me to Eric, and Eric was so nice. He came up to me, put his arms around me and said "Barry, it's such a pleasure to meet you" ... I couldn't figure it out... then Michael told me that he had told Eric I had cancer and two months to live...”
“Now it's virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that's a shame. We are going to lose something that makes scientists, that makes doers, that makes hard-minded, witty, clever people, and I worry that those people aren't being made these days.”
“It's a bit disappointing when board members who don't know a thing about football are making decisions on your career. When you look at it you've got coaches, senior players and CEO's who wanted me but then it gets to a board meeting and you've got fat businessmen who are making the decision on your career. It was frustrating and it made me a bit angry.”
“Again, I want to give credit where credit is due to our voice director, Collette Sunderman, who is someone that works out an incredible juggling act. I refer to it as juggling cats with vertigo, and the cats don't have vertigo, but the juggler has vertigo.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“My daughter is my biggest achievement. She is a little star and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along.”
“Evil comes up softly like a flower.”
“Oceanography is a terrific career because gradually we seem to be coming around to realize that we had better become as acquainted with the seventy percent of our planet that is covered by water as we are with the dark side of the moon.”
“So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.”

Source : "Jeremy Irons on Integrity". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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