Craig Armstrong Quotes
Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on.
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I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.'
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The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.
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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
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There are standards of the game that FIFA governs and promises to uphold.
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'Walking Dead' has done great on Netflix, but to pay for the full output deal just to get 'Walking Dead' didn't make sense.
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I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.
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When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think.
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If Assad continues to conduct strikes against the Free Syrian Army at will, it would be very difficult for them to have any success against ISIS.
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The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.
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I learned by listening to other people sing and doing impressions of them. And there are things no one can ever teach you, like phrasing. By listening to Sinatra, for instance - you felt that everything he sang had happened in his life.
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My little sister, who is four, can work my mom's iPhone better than she can.
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You might only get three takes to do a scene; sometimes it takes longer than that to find those moments.
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The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
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I hate bridges. I'm always very insecure on bridges.
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People are voting for Conservatives in greater numbers, but it's not translating into Conservative seats.
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I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think that having actual parents who lived through the Cultural Revolution who are also interested in literature, they're also very attuned to those moments.
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Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on.
