Edmund Crispin Quotes
He was a tall, burly, youngish man in plain clothes whose features some freak of heredity had assembled into a perpetual expression of muted alarm, so that to be in his company was like consorting with a man dogged by assassins.

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I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.
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When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
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We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India.
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When I first met my husband, I needed that helping hand to take the reins and look after me.
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But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven.
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My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.
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I learned pretty early is I never defend my material; it's for other people to if someone is offended. It's so subjective, and if you don't find it funny, it's definitely going to be offensive.
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Is there anything more important than a child?
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Only once you really let go will you realize that you always knew how to fly.
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Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.
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It was so fun. Being ahead and still being relaxed, we got to chill out.
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If a typical person can do a mental task with less than one second of thought, we can probably automate it using AI either now or in the near future.
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What is it that you most fear hearing about your work?
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Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.
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I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.
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Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.
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He was a tall, burly, youngish man in plain clothes whose features some freak of heredity had assembled into a perpetual expression of muted alarm, so that to be in his company was like consorting with a man dogged by assassins.