Edmund Crispin Quotes
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
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I do my job like I breathe.
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Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.
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If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
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The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more - if more should be required - the future of human civilization is at stake.
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The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us.
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Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing.
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I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston.
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I went to school because I was supposed to. I did pre-med because my mum thought it was a good idea.
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I did the Kilimanjaro climb a few years ago, then the six-day trek to Machu Picchu in Peru so this bike ride to raise money for Great Ormond Street seemed like the next big challenge.
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At the end of the day, none of us are doing an impression of the guys we are playing; we are just trying to create the essence of what they do for a living and go through with their families.
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There are albums that I like because of specific songs, but then there are albums that I like as a complete body of work. 'Ghetto Fabolous' is an album I lived with daily.
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A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
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Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.
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I'm living my dream now.
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There is no question that Dan Quayle is an uneducated idiot. But someone, somewhere cleverly realized that the best diversion from Bush is to put on a clown show.
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Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity. (p. 183)
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There are more than a million British people living in Spain. There are hundreds of thousands of British people living in France. In fact there are tens of thousands of people living in almost every EU country and if we were to pull up the drawbridge on the English Channel, the truth is British people wouldn't be able to come and go because they'd take action against us.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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A Johnsonian portentousness emanated from him.
