Bernard Crick Quotes
Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
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Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.
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I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
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'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.
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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
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But I've consistently worked for 10 years.
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We live in a society where nothing is sacred.
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Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
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I don't really get to see a lot of other comedians, because I work with the same people all the time. The guy I really like is Nick DiPaulo. I love Nick DiPaulo, but again, he's a buddy of mine. But I liked him for a long time. I liked him before he was a buddy of mine.
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A fatwa is a religious edict. Such edicts bind only those who seek to follow the Imam issuing them but can be regarded as an option for others seeking an alternative view.
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I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.
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You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity. And forget traditional character assassination; if you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.
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On 6 October 1973, the Yom Kippur war broke out between a coalition of Arab states and Israel. At 6 A.M. that morning, Kissinger, asleep in the Waldorf, was taken by surprise by the Arab attack - as were the CIA and the rest of the world.
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New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It's all about how people choose to use it.
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I try hard not to repeat myself and not to do material other people are doing. We transcribe every other late-night show to make sure there's no similarity.
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
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One of my favorite rules of writing: stop whenever it's feeling really good so you have something to look forward to the next day.
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Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
