Conrad Black Quotes
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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When police or security personnel work in schools, they should follow the community policing model that integrates officers into school life, not just involve them when trouble arises.
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Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
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I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or at least the ones I want to be with.
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I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture.
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When I was a kid, I used to try and hit every ball out of the ground. After playing one-day cricket and Test cricket, I never thought I'd get a chance to play like that again, ever. Twenty20 has given me the opportunity of playing like a kid again. I can just feel free and go out there and hit.
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Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
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My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
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No. I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit.
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Human nature is accused of much more selfishness than it really has ; a thousand kindly emotions break in upon and redeem our daily and interested life.
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Unlike every other other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.
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That woman I once was, in a black agate necklace, I do not wish to meet again till the Day of Judgement.
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My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.
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I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.
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Here's the key to Jamaica, the secret to Jamaican dancehall parties, no matter where you are in the world. If you do not see Japanese people, you're at the wrong party. They source authenticity like no other culture I've ever seen.
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It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending.
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The swarming, grunting masses of jackals...
