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.
Larry Wilmore -
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.
Oliver North -
Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
Jack Herer -
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.
Laura Marling -
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.
Action Bronson -
Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that's a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful.
Sam Altman
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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.
Abraham Lincoln -
My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.
Nancy Kerrigan -
Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
Sam Abell -
When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
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.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
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.
Uday Kotak
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The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
Edmund Burke -
Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
P. J. O'Rourke -
We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.
Tanya Tucker -
My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.
Cab Calloway -
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
Quincy Jones -
Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
Paracelsus
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At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length of the ballad stanza, the verse of a hymn, and innumerable other kinds of verse.
James Fenton -
I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.
John Lennon The Beatles -
Before I leave this Earth, I would like to know they have given women the same benefits and promotions as men.
Martha Griffiths -
Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.
Antony Sher -
We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.
Haider al-Abadi -
It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril.
Craig Brown