John Thaw Quotes
I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
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We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
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You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
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Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any time.
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It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.
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I really feel like I found myself, and when I found myself, I found the music along with it.
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Your obligation as a base runner is to try and be safe within the rules. OK?
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I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.
