Bernard Crick Quotes
The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.
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Good sports facilities are a blessing.
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There's something called CEQA in California - NEPA at the federal level. There's indigenous lands and autonomies relating to governance on those lands. There are all kinds of obstructions as it relates to just getting zoning approval and getting building permits.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone.
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On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
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I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.
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The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy.
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I've tried Botox, I've tried them all. I'm definitely not one of those people who says, 'You shouldn't do this.' Everyone can individually do what they want. For all time women have wanted to, for the most part, look their best. It's just that what we have available to us today is what it is today and if you want to take advantage of it, yeah.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.
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the fashion pages of magazines such as Cosmopolitan now seem to specialize in telling the career girl what to wear to charm the particular wrong type of man who reads Playboy, while the editorial pages tell her how to cope with the resulting psychic damage.
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Your kids grow up. I think they more than anything are making me feel as if, you know, you want to squeeze everything you got every single day out of this thing. Because it passes quick.
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When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
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We may not be worthy to be forgiven, but He is worthy to forgive us.
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Dollars have never been known to produced character, and character will never be produced by money.
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When you're seventeen years old, green and inexperienced, you're grateful for any guidance and direction you can get.
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The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.
