Clive Barnes Quotes
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Natural or artificial stimulation of nerves gives rise to a process of progressive excitation in them, leading to a response in the effector organ of the nerves concerned.
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I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.
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When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.
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It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.
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My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.
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But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.
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Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.
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I have never been in a serious relationship and never had a break-up, so I can't tug on my heartstrings that way. But whenever I experience a strong emotion in life, I definitely have to throw myself into my songwriting. It is very therapeutic.
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There isn't a specific person in my mind that I'd want to play. Yet.
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I look back upon my Liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.
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At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.
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The movie has called it closed. I'm not saying I won't ever listen to 'Les Miserables' again. But it closed the door for me. It's gone its own way.
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People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.
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The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.
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In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.
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Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.
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When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence.
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The Federal Building's large Ceremonial Courtroom, reserved for show trials, is veneered in executive teak. Bench, counsel tables, jury boxes, entrances, and exits -- all are as formally arranged as an Elizabethan stage. Only the drama is shapeless, at least to those of us who have never seen a trial before. We see only random movements, sequences, comings and goings, no form or agenda apparent. To us the action is less like watching a play than watching an aquarium.
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There was an aura about him (Joe DiMaggio). He walked like no one else walked. He did things so easily. He was immaculate in everything he did. Kings of State wanted to meet him and be with him. He carried himself so well. He could fit in any place in the world.
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Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.
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As hard as the nails on a crucifix.
