Bernard Ingham Quotes
The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
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Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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In Mexico, audiences want to see a big discussion around a film - what we expect from Hollywood films worldwide is more of an entertaining show. 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' was a road movie and comedy, but it had a very strong political connotation that sparked a discussion in Mexico that is still going on.
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I don't look for anybody to pay for health care for me and my family. That's my responsibility.
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I love coming to Detroit. First getting to be buddies with Kid Rock in the beginning, and him being really great to us, showing us love, the love of the city. I feel like it's our city now, too.
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I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
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Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.
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One of the first acts during the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997 was a major board overhaul.
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Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.
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For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.
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The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.
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The media can be a really strong vehicle.
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I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
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The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift.
