Bernard Crick Quotes
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.Bernard Crick
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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 -
I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
Oscar Isaac -
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 -
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 -
I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
Paloma Faith -
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 -
I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.
Tarsem Singh -
If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
J. Michael Straczynski -
When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.
Gaspard Ulliel -
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
E. M. Forster -
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 -
I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.
Maggie Gyllenhaal -
I built my entire life on the idea of independence.
Valerie Trierweiler -
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
Yann Martel -
My idea of working out is going upstairs in my apartment.
Dana Davis -
No politician in a European sense is happy with 26 million people unemployed. Nobody can be happy with 6 to 9 million young people unemployed. You have to give them hope and confidence and a sense of inspiration that the European process is actually about people, not about bureaucracy.
Enda Kenny
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Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.
Taylor Swift -
They've got a nice middle linebacker Justin Thacker and a good secondary. They run to the ball pretty well.
Bob Lutz -
I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children.
Carlos Delgado -
Whatever it is Christ said doesn't get a fair shake. There's not much written, it was done 150 years later, and it was used to create an empire. So can we get rid of all that and just see what the guy said?
Rickie Lee Jones -
I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't – that to me is not life.
Jack Kevorkian -
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
Bernard Crick