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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Social support is not the same as merely being in the presence of others. The critical issue is reciprocity: being truly heard and seen by the people around us, feeling that we are held in someone else’s mind and heart. For our physiology to calm down, heal, and grow we need a visceral feeling of safety. No doctor can write a prescription for friendship and love: These are complex and hard-earned capacities. You don’t need a history of trauma to feel self-conscious and even panicked at a party with strangers—but trauma can turn the whole world into a gathering of aliens.
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The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.
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Order and system are nobler things than power.
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
