Bernard Crick Quotes
Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.
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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.
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I can never find the right bras.
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One of the reasons I picked up the guitar is because I saw a video of Feist performing in Paris.
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I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.
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Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.
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I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.
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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.
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I know I've dreamed you, a sin and a lie I have my freedom but I don't have much time Faith has been broken, tears must be cried Let's do some living, after we die Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day…
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I often find myself going back to Darwin's saying about the duration of a man's friendships being one of the best measures of his worth.
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God does not exist-religion in science is an absurdity, in practice an immorality and in men a disease.
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I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks.
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I'm delighted to be joining the cast of 'The Fall' for what is going to be an exciting and gripping second series.
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Always my collections are made of different influences.
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What's important for me is to find the right kind of girls who express a vision of a woman. We like girls who look smart and intelligent with natural beauty - a certain quality of skin and hair. And she doesn't look exactly like a model.
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Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.
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It's very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we're still shocked by the female figure.
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Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.
