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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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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What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.
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How do you think we build a future? I think we build it by investing in our kids and investing in education.
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Always keep absorbing art and looking at paintings and reading books and watching movies in other languages, just getting to know the world at hand and the world of the past. It's important to keep absorbing the world and keep engaging with it, and often that means not thinking about movies and thinking about other things.
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Because I was a chemistry student and was never supposed to be a musician, I always felt like I was an outsider looking at music going "Why is this interesting to me? Why should I be doing this?" and I never felt like I was a natural musician. It came into my life, kind of, as a conceptual problem and I think all my pieces are, in a way, looking at some issue and sometimes veering toward an inside baseball model of classical music.
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The main motivation was to explore the empire's falling. I mean 'Duck City' is like an allegory for the Western Empire or the United States. And I was thinking what happens when it falls and declines like the Roman Empire.
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Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?
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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.
