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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I channel surf like probably most people.
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The charity work is just a part of what I do. Like... I make time to clean my house, to care for my pets, to visit my extended family, because those things are important to me. Same with helping others.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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The big difference between the radio show and the TV work is that I don't have to work by committee on the radio show. I'm the DJ; I can play what I want and suffer or get praised by that. With a TV show, it's much more of a collaboration, and the song that I might think is perfect may get shot down and vice versa.
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Bujak spoke of Einstein as if he were God's literary critic, God being a poet. I, more stolidly, tend to suspect that God is a novelist - a garrulous and deeply unwholesome one too.
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Alan Whicker may be the last Briton to have worn a silver-buttoned blazer with complete confidence.
