Bernard Crick Quotes
Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
Quotes to Explore
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road.
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
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I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
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What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown into the political system, and all I saw when was small after my grandmother died was my father in constant - constant combat with the system in India, and then I saw him die, actually.
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In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
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I drink therefore I am.
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I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.
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I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
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I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting.
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You don't have to show people how successful you are.
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I think I did experience culture shock. When I first arrived in Boston, I was basically told to go home. "Homeboy" is what they called me - very funny. I didn't take offense. I just thought, This is exactly where I want to be. The pace was different. Houston is a sprawling city. Boston is just crammed into the size of a postage stamp.
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I also think a Hot Mom is someone who can connect with what's current in her kids' world.
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I don't like conservatives. They always talk about the good old days. I'm black, we have no good old days.
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So many people think you have to be rich and famous to really create an impact, and it's just not true. Especially when it comes to environmentalism.
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Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
