Bernard Crick Quotes
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
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The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
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One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.
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My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
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The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.
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At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I realized 'Girl in a Country Song' was an honest, truthful song, and we were telling our truth, and that's all we have to do - write songs that are true and tell our stories.
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As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
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When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.
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I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.
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God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'
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Regardless of theology or however you see life or relate to worshiping God, as an artist, my job is to tell the truth and then try to connect with these characters and people as honestly and deeply as possible.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.
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How much frankness can we stand in a friend?
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I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
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Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.
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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
