Francis Marion Crawford Quotes
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I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.
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Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
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Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.
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It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.
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I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.
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If the light is right, you can squint at the Taj and see the specter of its black twin on the other side of the Yamuna - and it is then that you truly marvel not just at the Taj, but at the wonder of what might have been.
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A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs.
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I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.
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We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.
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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
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You, I, we all encounter behaviors that we might say, I wouldn't do that. But she has a huge amount of contact with how people live. She sees more hospices and sink estates than most people.
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I love technology. I love trying to tell stories in new ways using technology.
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Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.
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I am behind Kanye West for American President 100 per cent.
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I interviewed dozens and dozens of African women who had endured more hardship and trauma than most Westerners even read about, and they ploughed on. I often openly cried during interviews, unable to process this violence and hatred towards women I was witnessing.
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One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.
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When it comes to beach volleyball, we're playing in 100-degree-plus weather.
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When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.
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When we overestimate the benefits of exercise, underestimate how many calories we eat, and overcompensate for a job well done, exercise is really a false protection from fattening food.
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I would maintain that the buddhist world-view, with its recognition of the crucial role of the mind and the inconceivably vast dimensions of reality is much richer and more adequate to philosophical reflection than the flattened world-view bequeathed to us through a presumptuous misapplication of the scientific method beyond its legitimate domain.
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Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener.
