Craig Brown Quotes
What would we do without plaques to tell us who lived where and when? They introduce the past into the present, and are the quickest and most interesting way of reminding us that our streets exist above and beyond the here-and-now.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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I was a tomboy.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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The trick is falling in love with something enough, and being excited enough by something, to want to make that year and a half or two year commitment and wake up every morning at 5 to go deal with a whole day full of problems to get it up on the screen. You really need passion.
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The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
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Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
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Changing lifestyle habits acquired over many years is often extremely difficult.
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America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.
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What would we do without plaques to tell us who lived where and when? They introduce the past into the present, and are the quickest and most interesting way of reminding us that our streets exist above and beyond the here-and-now.
