Bernard Crick Quotes
Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.
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I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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When I happened to get into school, I felt like I could approach it as aggressively as things in the military.
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My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
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All these songs honestly explore the ups and downs of my reality.
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I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.
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Heart of my heart, we cannot die! Love triumphant in flower and tree, Every life that laughs at the sky Tells us nothing can cease to be: One, we are one with the song to-day, One with the clover that scents the world, One with the Unknown, far away, One with the stars, when earth grows old.
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If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given - my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you.
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I was very disruptive. I was horrible. I didn't learn like all the other kids. I had to sometimes take my tests out in the hallways because I couldn't focus. But, my teachers would come see me in the plays and were like 'I don't understand how you can focus and be in the moment in a play and you go into math class and you can't focus.'
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A few years ago, I fell in love with a man before realising he was married.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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The days are usually filled with nonsense and every now and again somebody flies by the circus to party on your dime.
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The words that we attach to our experience become our experience.
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If I hear another line dance song I think I'm going to puke.
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It's the ultimate identity theft when you start messing with somebody's work. Thinking that you could edit the work, or mix it differently, or re-EQ it, or make claims about it that aren't true.
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Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.
