Craig Roberts Quotes
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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We had a lot of difficulty in getting the French to accept the pyramid. They thought we were trying to import a piece of Egypt until I pointed out that their obelisk was also from Egypt and the Place des Pyramides is around the corner. Then they accepted it. The pyramid at the Louvre, though, is just the tip.
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It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.
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In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.
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I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
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I think theater is a core need of a community.
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I saw Bitcoin as an actual market opportunity: as a trillion-dollar marketplace with long-term potential.
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Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.
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Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
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Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us.
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I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am.
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We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision.
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Wearing modest clothing is a belief, and I'm not going to say that every Muslim woman is in my shoes, but the majority of us do have a choice.
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Even if America entered the war, it is improbable that the Allied armies could invade Europe and overwhelm the Axis powers. But one thing is certain. If England can draw this country into the war, she can shift to our shoulders a large portion of the responsibility for waging it and for paying its cost.
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The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of words in the body of the law is multiplication of ambiguity. Besides, it seems to imply (by too much diligence) that whosoever can evade the words is without the compass of the law.
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My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.
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(Jokingly) Sex in ten dimensions is impossible... topologically.
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I grew up homeless, you know, lived in and out of U-Haul trucks and, you know, apartment houses, friends.
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I would probably go so far as to say that I couldn't act before I met Richard Ayoade.
