Francis Marion Crawford Quotes
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How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy of violence? Some say you continue to talk and let him tire himself out. But nearly 40 years after the institution of apartheid, is there anyone who still believes that verbal persuasion will work?
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Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.
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Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.
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I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.
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Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
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I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.
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I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.
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I do have a priority in my house, and that is I want my kids to be healthy, and if I give them the right food, I am headed consistently toward that goal.
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I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.
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We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.
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I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2.
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Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for them.
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Now's the best time you'll ever have in life to get ahead!
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A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
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If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.
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It is a spectacular example of Mughal architecture, blends Islamic, Hindu, and Persian styles.
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When you're starting a company, almost anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and it will probably look like and feel like you made the absolute wrong decision to start the company. If you're not absolutely determined to solve a problem or see something through, it might not make sense to keep going.
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I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'
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I didn't really have idols growing up, but some of my friends were huge fangirls.
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To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
