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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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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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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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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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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I don't see myself as famous; I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal. My work life is very out there and very public. But I do my best to maintain my privacy.
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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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It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.
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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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People understand that Trump is a born leader.
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
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The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military.
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I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money.
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We've got to remain energy-independent. It gives us much more power and freedom than to be worried about what goes on in the Middle East. We have enough worries over there without having to worry about that.
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The swarming, grunting masses of jackals...
