Bernard Ingham Quotes
I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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I've been a lucky boy.
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Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.
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I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.
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It seems that you live in someone else's dream In a hand-me-down wedding dress With the things that could have been are repressed But you said your vows and you closed the door On so many men who would have loved you more
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Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of what we'll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally - and permanently - be 'at home' in a way that defies description.
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I want to enjoy not getting recognised while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can be a Walker.
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I get really weird when I'm not working. I have to keep working.
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You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that.
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My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
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I can possibly say I have entertained and educated more people than anyone else in the world.
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My whole life, I've guarded guys bigger than me.
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People have to take control of their own lives. Education is key because it also raises other social indicators like healthcare.
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We know that school readiness programs work, and the best ones work extraordinarily well. They are effective in reducing the achievement gap, which in Connecticut is among the highest in the country.
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Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.
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My wife and I were worried, when we had our firstborn, about how he was going to think of himself in a mostly white neighborhood. Particularly Asian men, I feel, we suffer more than Asian women, because we're told we're not worth anything in general.
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I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.
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I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.
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A lot of people say about 'Gossip Girl,' 'Well, how do you feel about gossip?' Well, who really likes gossip? No one likes to be talked about if it's not flattering or a compliment.
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Some people will always gossip.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Observe, Remember, Compare.
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I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.
