Craig Brown Quotes
I have twice met Jeffrey Archer, and on both occasions was struck by the firmness of his handshake - and the way he looked me straight in the eye, too.
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Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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All my books are optimistic!
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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I remember, when I was younger, it was such a big fantasy for me. Now that I actually have a career and have made an album, it's really surreal.
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I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.
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It's strange to recall that America animated none of my youthful daydreams. I did not see a Hollywood film until my late teens.
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I suggest that, if India is to evolve along nonviolent lines, it will have to decentralize many things. Centralization cannot be sustained and defended without adequate force . . .Centralization as a system is inconsistent with non-violent structure of society.
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Whether or no it be for the general good, life is robbery. It is at this point that with life morals become acute. The robber requires justification.
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It's safe to say headphones is a good business.
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I want to show people my interpretation of what creating music is, and this is where it comes from: the heart.
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I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all.
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I've always been against trying to make a movie like another movie. That's lame. It's already been done, so why do it again?
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When something is aspirational, you don't want someone to be thinking about payment every single time.
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I'm an inner city man, born and bred.
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I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art. You have to believe in what you're doing. It just comes from when you lie awake at night.
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To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.
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Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions.
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I remember, when I was doing 'Nicholas Nickleby', James Archer came to see me at the interval and said, 'My father would like to see you after the show.' It felt rather as if I had been summoned by the Queen, and I was cocky enough to think, 'Who the hell is he to summon me?'
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As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the mark, so men pass from God to God. He is the mark for which they have been created, and they do not rest till they find their rest in him.
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I have twice met Jeffrey Archer, and on both occasions was struck by the firmness of his handshake - and the way he looked me straight in the eye, too.
