Bernard Crick Quotes
Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.
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Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
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The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks against future historians.
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When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.
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You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.
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I think there is room out there to show the grace and dignity of women like Laura Bush.
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Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
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Being in the consumer business helps us groom talent in areas like marketing, finance and logistics. We can benchmark our outsourcing business to our consumer business and its best practices.
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The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.
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I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.
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Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.
