Edmund Crispin Quotes
The main teaching block – a large but comfortless eighteenth-century erection of red brick, ivy-covered and a kind of game reservation for mice.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I had no idea about nutrition. I thought by eating salads you'll stay skinny.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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The battle against cancer has made me strong. It's like winning a war! When I was diagnosed, I was told by doctors my kidney, liver and other organs could fail. It was tough. I didn't know if I could save my life. But I was positive, and because of that, the doctor told me that I would be a man who would never have cancer.
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Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.
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I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.
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When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
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I'd only been in the business three or four years, but I told myself that someday I'd like to be Mort Janklow.
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When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill.
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I believe in hard work, not luck factor. The best efforts will reap the best fruits. Nobody can take all the credit. We don't even talk about the efforts of the director, the writers, other technicians, etc. They all together take a film to another level.
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I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
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But simultaneously with the development of capitalist production the credit system also develops. The money-capital which the capitalist cannot as yet employ in his own business is employed by others, who pay him interest for its use.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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Politics is a game of compromise.
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My fingers are not as fast as my brain - which isn't that much to type home about anyway.
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I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.
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The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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Bogie had tremendous character and a great sense of honor and would not tolerate lies, even if they asked him what he thought of a movie. We were once at a screening at somebody's house, I forget whose, and they ran a movie that he was in, that he never thought much of. Afterward, the producer asked what he thought of it, and Bogie said "I think it's a crock." And this producer was horrified! He was about to release the movie, and he said to Bogie "Why would you say that?!" Bogie shrugged and said "Then don't ask me." He never played the schmoozing game. He was not into that at all.
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The main teaching block – a large but comfortless eighteenth-century erection of red brick, ivy-covered and a kind of game reservation for mice.
