Bernard Crick Quotes
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.
Tao Lin
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Every idea has its time.
Vicente Fox
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
Ugo Betti
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
Karl Kraus
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I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
Oscar Isaac
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I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
Hannah Gadsby
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It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.
Samuel L. Jackson
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I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
Paloma Faith
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I'm still not used to the idea of being the youngest circumnavigator.
Laura Dekker
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Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
W. G. Sebald
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.
Tarsem Singh
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If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
J. Michael Straczynski
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When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.
Gaspard Ulliel
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
E. M. Forster
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
Damien Hirst
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So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the elements and what they teach us, and to each other.
M. Night Shyamalan
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As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.
Kami Garcia
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The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge.
Walt Disney
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Throughout the early and mid-1990s, the Clinton administration debated the merits of paying for AIDS testing and counseling of vulnerable populations overseas.
Barton Gellman
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In terms of playing, of course, Europe is definitely more finesse than playing in the WNBA. I think they're more skilled in terms of the overall ability. And here in the States, in the WNBA, we just kind of play off athleticism and just play.
Cappie Pondexter
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There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes.
Garry Kasparov -
Why would you design something if it didn't improve the human condition?
Niels Diffrient
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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
Bernard Crick