Craig Brown Quotes
Just as there is something about an empty skip that makes you want to fill it, so there is something about a full skip that makes you want to empty it.
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I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
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I have to give importance to my personal life, my family, parents, and sisters. I hope I can strike the right balance.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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Thought makes reality.
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I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
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Do more than you are being paid to do, and you'll eventually be paid more for what you do.
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There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour.
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The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is written, and to stand by it with all my heart.
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All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs. Taye Diggs comes from Scott-taye. When I went to college I liked it because it was so different and I have an infatuation with nicknames.
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People send me fanmail in the post, and I keep every letter, and I always say I will read every single one. It might take me years and years, but I'll do it. Your audience are what makes you, so you have give as much back as you can.
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Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.
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'Some,' answered Imlac, 'have indeed said that the soul is material, but I can scarcely believe that any man has thought it, who knew how to think; for all the conclusions of reason enforce the immateriality of mind, and all the notices of sense and investigations of science, concur to prove the unconsciousness of matter.
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Vietnam is about halfway around the world from Washington. It's as large as the major European nations, with nearly 130,000 square miles... Its ancient recorded history goes back to 111 B.C... We entered (that country) with considerable ignorance.
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Jesus Pietro was worried. The Sons of Earth, if they got this far, would go straight to the vivarium to free their compatriots. But if Matthew Keller was his own agent... If the ghost of Alpha Plateau was not a rebel, but a thing with its own unpredictable purpose... Jesus Pietro worried.
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When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.
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Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraeulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'
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People reacted to how I looked, and that was certainly a power to have as a young girl, but not one that you really understand.
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Time has told me not to ask for more, someday our ocean will find its shore.
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Attacking school segregation requires all hands on deck. We in the charter sector must move beyond our traditional comfort zone, serving disadvantaged students, and meet the demands of parents who have other high quality options.
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I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.
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I'm a bat. All my greatest, creative ideas come at night. So I hardly ever sleep.
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Just as there is something about an empty skip that makes you want to fill it, so there is something about a full skip that makes you want to empty it.
