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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I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.
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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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It's President Barack Obama sounding the alarm, scaring the crap out of the American people. Saying if you don't raise the debt feeling, we're going to default.
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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.
