Bernard Crick Quotes
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
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You can never get enough of what you don't want.
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.
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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
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I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.
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When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?
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I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor certain language nuances that don't always translate to English.
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My son had nothing to do with policy or decision making, nor did I discuss the elections or any other matter with him.
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If I can teach cricket overseas, why wouldn't I do so in my own country?
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A lot of my close friends are nothing to do with show business. But the people I've had relationships with, invariably, I've worked with. I think that's probably because I grew up in a family where we all worked together, so it's something I feel comfortable with.
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We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth -- all these belong to the old period. But your railroad starts the new era, and we of a certain age belong to the new time and the old one. We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.
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An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.
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Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
