"My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more."

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Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Barry Humphries

#Army Quotes #Parent Quotes #Facts Quotes

“Sex is a slotmachine.”
“Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.”
“All at once it hit him: this was power too, just as surely as smashing your fist into someoneâ€™s face, just as surely as putting a hammer through someoneâ€™s skull. The power to make another person crazy with pleasure instead of fear and pain, to have every cell in another personâ€™s body at your thrall.”
“We've placed a lot of emphasis in this country on the idea of people's rights. That's how it should be, but it makes no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities.”
“No man can have anything better after faith than a woman of righteous character, loving and child-bearing. And no man can have anything worse after unbelief than a sharp-tongued woman of bad character.”
“The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means.”

Source : "Banned Techniques Yielded ‘High Value Information,’ Memo Says". www.nytimes.com. April 21, 2009.
“You can plan for a hundred years. But you don't know what will happen the next moment.”
“Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.”

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