Craig Brown Quotes
Alan Whicker may be the last Briton to have worn a silver-buttoned blazer with complete confidence.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
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I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
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Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
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To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.
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All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.
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When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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You can see the walls roarSee your brains on the floorBecome GodBecome crippleBecome funky
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
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Clarke's Law of Revolutionary Ideas: Every revolutionary idea - in science, politics, art, or whatever - seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases:(1) 'It's completely impossible - don't waste my time';(2) 'It's possible, but it's not worth doing';(3) 'I said it was a good idea all along.'
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Human beings will find a balanced situation when they do good things not because God says it, but because they feel like doing them.
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Alan Whicker may be the last Briton to have worn a silver-buttoned blazer with complete confidence.
