Bernard Lewis Quotes

I think that the growing government control of the press is very clear. Turkey is still not a dictatorship, there is still some freedom of the press, but I think it's moving in the wrong direction.

Bernard Lewis

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• I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.

  

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• I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself.

  

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• Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

  

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• One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.

  

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• I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

  

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• It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.

  

  Daniel Craig
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• We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • You
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• Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.

  

  Karl Pilkington
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• Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
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• Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

  

  Hans Haacke
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• Typically, when you sell your story rights to a movie production company, they can do whatever they want with it. The writer is typically not involved anymore.

  

  Watt Key
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• I think she's so cool, but I personally don't think I sound like Rihanna! But when I first released my music, I did get that comparison a lot. I never really thought about that, but it's a good thing. She's awesome.

  

  Zara Larsson
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• Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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• The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

  

  Karl Lehmann
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• And yet it moves.

  

  Galileo Galilei
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• I would definitely want kids. Would they be dancers? I dunno. That's up to them. If they show interest, I will push them do the best. I was not brought up in a dancer's family. I was brought up in a family where the mentality was whatever you do, you gotta try to be the best at it.

  

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• So much of what I do has been based off of my heroes and guys I've watched come up.

  

  T. J. Perkins
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• Digital photography is, by definition, unfinished. You don't feel that after every 24 or 36 shots you have to change your film - you know you can go on for ever if you want. You can see the result immediately, and find out if your original idea is worth going on with or not, whether it can be corrected, whether it can be improved.

  

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• People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.

  

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• I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves away from pop.

  

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• I have done a lot of interviews over the years, so you think I would know how to handle difficult questions, etc. But the truth is, I don't.

  

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• I think that the growing government control of the press is very clear. Turkey is still not a dictatorship, there is still some freedom of the press, but I think it's moving in the wrong direction.

  

  Bernard Lewis
  • Freedom
  • Government
  • Direction