Bernard Crick Quotes
The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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I find the business world hard.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.
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The biggest thing for me with charity is awareness. Obviously as an athlete, I have an opportunity to make people more aware. The average person doesn't have that opportunity, so the best way is to spare some money, clothing, food - something. Most of us have a little excess of something that we can give.
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Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.
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I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
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You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.
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I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love.
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He got his mean streak from the gutterGot his kindness from God
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Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh,The sun has left the lea.
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For the first time people in the south stopped calling for separation, raised the national flag and demanded an end to the regime. It's been truly historic. The country is united in its aim to rid itself of the regime through public vigils and rallies, civil disobedience and slogans instead of tear gas and bullets.
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And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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Everyone in my family sang, and we would always sing these songs.
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
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The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
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Henceforth, the United States may have to determine how to cope with regional coalitions that seek to push America out of Eurasia, thereby threatening America's status as a global power.
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The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
