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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Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously.
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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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Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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Lacking the truth, [we] will however finds instants of truth, and these instants are in fact all we have available to us to give some order to this chaos of horror.
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I think most of my approach to life has been like that, to find order in chaos, to be in the middle of a bunch of things happening at the same time, but find focus. I strive to be like the sun sitting in the middle of the solar system with all the planets spinning around it - millions of things going on. It's just sitting there being the sun, but exerting gravitational effect on everything. I think man should look at himself that way.
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Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
