Craig Brown Quotes
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I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.
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You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.
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Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that's a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
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It was the 'Gaucho' album that finished us off. We had pursued an idea beyond the point where it was practical. That album took about two years, and we were working on it all of that time - all these endless tracking sessions involving different musicians. It took forever, and it was a very painful process.
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We encounter very healthy boardroom debates and pretty diverse views, so we have always had the benefit of diversity of opinion and expression before we take some important calls.
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The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
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Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
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We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.
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My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain.
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I'd like to do a kind of 'Sunday Night At The Palladium'-style variety show on the BBC.
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A few days after 9/11, I put the old cassette of 'Born in the U.S.A.,' twisted and worn, on the car deck as I drove past West Point, across the Bear Mountain Bridge, along the Hudson River. It was the perfect moment to hear it.
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The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.
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In my entire life I have only met four "perfect" people... and I disliked them all.
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It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril.
