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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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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I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
Francis Bacon
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A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.
L. Ron Hubbard
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Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
Katharine Hepburn
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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
Bernard Crick