Claud Cockburn Quotes
If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when they are making what they believe to be an urgent appointment.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to release the prettiest guy, but that doesn't mean they're the best artist. Most of the time the true artists are just normal old dudes.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
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Visibility is dangerous because if a guy cuts you off in traffic, you can't call him a name - it might get to the press.
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I grew up in Mossel Bay in South Africa on the Garden Route. It's really windy there, and I like it. I enjoy links golf a lot.
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If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
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As far as the radio waves part of the spectrum, we can do these adequately from the ground because the atmosphere is basically transparent to our radio waves.
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If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when they are making what they believe to be an urgent appointment.
