Claud Cockburn Quotes
A devout and serious Christian, she was often bothered by what she read of socialists because she could not, instantly and absolutely, see where they were so wrong. To her horrified ear, they kept sounding as though they had ideas rather like Christ's.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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There are boxing fans, and there are fans of the UFC. People want to see blood, but people like both.
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We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.
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Conflict is the pursuit of truth.
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In doing my podcast, I do find that I tend to try out bits that I then try on stage later that day. If they work, great, and if they don't, I regret having talked about it on the podcast.
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I promise you, if you look at YouTube and see some of my first covers, you will hear that I don't sound good. But I was so obsessed with it and wanted so much to be good at it that I forced myself to figure out what sounds right and what sounds wrong.
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In general, when you have success on the field, you're more popular, and you have that fame that comes with it. You realize you're in the public eye more, and you've got to be a little bit more careful about some of the things you're doing out in public and make sure you're smart about the things you say.
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Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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Even when I was very small, my mother treated me like a great novelist. She was like: 'Oh, I'm sitting at the breakfast table with Flaubert,' and would say, if she burned some food or was late arriving, 'Don't put this in your novel!'
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A devout and serious Christian, she was often bothered by what she read of socialists because she could not, instantly and absolutely, see where they were so wrong. To her horrified ear, they kept sounding as though they had ideas rather like Christ's.
