Malcolm Bradbury Quotes
'I think, George,' says Merion, ' the trouble is that you don't have a conflict model of society.'
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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There should be no censorship of mail.
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening.
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You have to be willing to accept the idea that people may think you're stupid.
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I have a dream where society will replace guns with dictionaries.
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The philosophy of Kant's great successors was consciously a synthesis of Spinoza's and Kant's philosophies. Spinoza's characteristic contribution to this synthesis was a novel conception of God. He thus showed the way toward a new religion or religiousness which was to inspire a wholly new kind of society, a new kind of Church.
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My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,Did all within this circle move!
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'I think, George,' says Merion, ' the trouble is that you don't have a conflict model of society.'
