Kingman Brewster, Jr. Quotes
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.
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We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
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Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.
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In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.
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Playing on the Burj Al Arab helipad was an unforgettable experience, and the view of Dubai was incredible.
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
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I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
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Satire doesn't effect change.
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A lot of my music has ambiguity and room for people to interpret.
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The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
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It is all we have left to us. And while it is more than I ever dared dream, it is nowhere near enough.
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There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.
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I want to be remembered as a guy who tried his best and did his best.
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What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
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Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.
