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.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
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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.
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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.
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I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
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I'm still not used to the idea of being the youngest circumnavigator.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
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When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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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.
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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.
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I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.
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I built my entire life on the idea of independence.
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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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In the ideology of the new Silicon Valley, work was for the owned. Play was for the owners. There was a fundamental capitalism at work: While they abhorred the idea of being a wage slave, the young men of Silicon Valley were not trying to tear down the capitalist system. They were trying to become its new masters.
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This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.
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We have 10 Super Fund sites. We do see potential impact to development if the remediation does not go along faster.
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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.