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 have never seen homosexual chicken or turkey.
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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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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature. (Referenced in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young)
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Wine is the liquid form of the Goddess Tara, who is the saviour of all living creatures, the mother of all enjoyment and Release, the destroyer of dangers and disease, who burns up all sins and purifies the worlds, O Beloved , who grants all success and increases knowledge, understanding and learning.
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What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait...
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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
