Bernard Crick Quotes
The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.
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Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
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At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
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The one person whom I would like to be is Meryl Streep. Even at her age, she sits alongside the younger heroines at the Oscars with her name in the nominee list, and others around her wonder whether they still stand a chance.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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Fear controls you.
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I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
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I usually don't say anything to the actors. It works better for me because when they come to the set, they are at the same time scared and excited because they are not well aware of what will happen.
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I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'
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We think that there really is racial bias in determining who people want to date.
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Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.
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I'm not particularly political. I'm not particularly denominational. I'm not worried about any of that.
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Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.
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What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
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I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.
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The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
