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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The latest scientific assessment has almost doubled the predicted rate of warming if no changes are made.
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I don't want to sound too bleeding heart, because I know how lucky I've been, but I never knew how hard it was to be the lead in a television show.
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Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.
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Success means using your knowledge and experience to satisfy yourself. Significance means using your knowledge and experience to change the lives of others.
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The world is a big place, and there are many paths that lead to success. This applies to both political and economic concepts. For this reason, we see no need to stoically pursue the Chinese, American or French way. But we have socialism in common with China.
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To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
