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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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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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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So, I didn't get moved up because of celebrity status or anything like that. I got in line, and I passed the test. And they realized that I was sick enough, and as soon as the liver became available, I got one.
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My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.
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You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. Hold them dear, but don't let them take hold of you.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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If ESPN ever kicked me out the door and I had to get back to coach, I have to stay on top of what's going on.
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The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund' was on the shortlist for the Frank O'Connor International Story prize - Excited, thrilled, honored, none of them quite do it.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
