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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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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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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You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.
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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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The universe is fractal. The closer you look at it, the more interesting it becomes.
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About 75% of the price of gas is really dictated by crude oil. At the heart of the issue is increasing demand over a period of many years around the world. World crude oil consumption now is close to 90 million barrels a day. Most of the growth in demand is coming from China and the developing world.
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Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic.
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For me, there's nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational family saga, and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most sprawling, epic, and multi-generational of them all.
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You must be classic. Put yourselves before the model in a workmanlike spirit.
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It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril.
