Bernard Crick Quotes
To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
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You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
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I first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was starting to come down over the hill near Laguna in southern California. We would always sing a song, and it was a big joyous family moment when we came over the hill.
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I actually shoot. I enjoy target practice. I find it really zen. You focus on nothing but the target. You have to control your breathing. It's all part of my years in the military, where I was taught to become a marksman but also to respect my weapon.
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Never in endless time will ring a sound as sweetly As when a human heart in God is tuned completely.
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A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom
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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
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Violence is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation. Violence is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers.
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Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.
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We're just afraid, period. Our fear is free-floating. We're afraid this isn't the right relationship or we're afraid it is. We're afraid they won't like us or we're afraid they will. We're afraid of failure or we're afraid of success. We're afraid of dying young or we're afraid of growing old. We're more afraid of life than we are of death.
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The outer kingdom is not our real home. The inner kingdom is our everything.
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But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.
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In every real actor, there is a need to feel for a few hours like the center of the world. Egocentrismo, we say in Italian.
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I do not like Melbourne in its present state.
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Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.
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To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.
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Ideology makes people stupid.
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To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
