Melvyn Bragg
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Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you! MELVYN BRAGG I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He i... MELVYN BRAGG I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disrega... MELVYN BRAGG Now, perfectly ordinary people will give each other hugs. I mean, it used to be that a hug was reser... MELVYN BRAGG Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an... MELVYN BRAGG I'm a class mongrel. MELVYN BRAGG I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even ... MELVYN BRAGG I have written favourably in support of subsidy for the arts since the 1960s, and I continue to beli... MELVYN BRAGG We listened to a lot of drama, adaptations of books, comedy. There was a real love of music expresse... MELVYN BRAGG It is very difficult for middle-aged, institutionalised males who have done so well out of subsidy -... MELVYN BRAGG Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow. MELVYN BRAGG It is impossible to get enough books, don't you find? But where are we without them? Just words on t... MELVYN BRAGG In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it. MELVYN BRAGG I don't go around thinking I'm attractive or not attractive. It has never occurred to me. Pe... MELVYN BRAGG In music, the Specials brought a city, Coventry, bombed out for a second time and riven with racism,... MELVYN BRAGG Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District. MELVYN BRAGG Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do,... MELVYN BRAGG I don't get nervous when I'm interviewing someone on film - it can be cut, and we can do it ... MELVYN BRAGG The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other... MELVYN BRAGG More people go to Tate Modern than watch the Arsenal. MELVYN BRAGG The theatre always seems to be in trouble but always thriving. It's deeply comical to me that we... MELVYN BRAGG The success of the arts has come through a mix of public subsidy, substantial private support, and g... MELVYN BRAGG The class barricades have been stormed by the forces of a broad culture, which is made up of cluster... MELVYN BRAGG I don't want closure, I don't know what that means or why you would want it. MELVYN BRAGG We got a copy of the 'New Statesman' at my grammar school in Wigton, Cumbria, in the 1950s. ... MELVYN BRAGG I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philh... MELVYN BRAGG Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to liste... MELVYN BRAGG As the 20th century unspooled, a cultural warming melted down many frozen class characteristics. MELVYN BRAGG Magna Carta has 63 clauses in abbreviated Latin. Two of them that are still on the statute book, num... MELVYN BRAGG The BBC does a sterling job, but I'd like to see it do more. ITV does four arts programmes a yea... MELVYN BRAGG Don't make excuses and Don't talk about it. Do it. MELVYN DOUGLAS A three-pint problem MELVYN SMALL MELVYN FANCY Your word is your bond. MELVYN DOUGLAS RICK BRAGG Protest music was prematurely declared to be unfashionable, BILLY BRAGG RICK BRAGG The revolution is just a T-shirt away.Waiting for the Great Leap Forward BILLY BRAGG RICK BRAGG I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at al... BILLY BRAGG By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which ... BILLY BRAGG RICK BRAGG The thing about Strummer was he walked it like he talked it, ... He didn't cop out. He didn't show o... BILLY BRAGG Welcome to what we're calling 'I'll Be Your Bobby Tonight'. BILLY BRAGG That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians... BILLY BRAGG Yet it seemed to Bega that if she could continue to read, which had come so easily to her... then th... MELVYNN BRAGG And just because you're gay, I won't turn you away.BILLY BRAGG This is Cat history. Compared to the feeding and caring of horses, this was wonderful. GARY BRAGG That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world.... BILLY BRAGG I try and write honestly about what I see around me now. BILLY BRAGG I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of ... BILLY BRAGG An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone. BILLY BRAGG RICK BRAGG RICK BRAGG A part of my job is to bring the news from elsewhere to here and to take back some news from here. .... BILLY BRAGG And since September 11 and the war with Iraq, I think people are more attuned to music that's got so... BILLY BRAGG You can only make political music if you have a context. . . . You cannot make political music in a ... BILLY BRAGG Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage tro... BILLY BRAGG In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved... BILLY BRAGG I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash. BILLY BRAGG A lot of people broke their arms on these cranks; it's similar to what was used on early cars. GARY BRAGG Maybe a few dozen are left. GARY BRAGG RICK BRAGG Mermaid Avenue Vol. II, BILLY BRAGG To have accountability you must get out and vote! BILLY BRAGG Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today. BILLY BRAGG We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it. BILLY BRAGG My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing. BILLY BRAGG But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wou... BILLY BRAGG The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a jo... BILLY BRAGG RICK BRAGG RICK BRAGG A song is like a newspaper. It's capable of carrying a number of different messages. Some of them ar... BILLY BRAGG All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations. BILLY BRAGG They were the true inheritors of the mantle of The Clash. BILLY BRAGG Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had. BILLY BRAGG This is our showpiece this season, we're tickled. GARY BRAGG I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they sho... BILLY BRAGG RICK BRAGG I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportun... BILLY BRAGG It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, bu... BILLY BRAGG My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter. BILLY BRAGG Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go ... BILLY BRAGG I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters fro... BILLY BRAGG I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come... BILLY BRAGG There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own persona... BILLY BRAGG So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs t... BILLY BRAGG All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real ... BILLY BRAGG If no one seems to understandBILLY BRAGG The intimacy and spiritual relationships or connections that one can have with their significant oth... DR. MELVYN RUBENFIRE People think it's bad for them. While abuse of anything is a problem, some chocolates actually have ... DR. MELVYN RUBENFIRE Our lives are righteous that's why we are living forever for all eternity! Alleluia! Amen! MELVYN M. LUSTERIO The happiness we bring in the World is the happiness of our God in Heaven! Alleluia! Amen! <3 O:)... MELVYN M. LUSTERIO Thinking right makes us good;MELVYN M. LUSTERIO All things under heaven are now in God's supervision for all eternity! Alleluia! Amen! MELVYN M. LUSTERIO My message is that if you enjoy it and are in the mood for it, eating dark chocolate is fine. Just d... DR. MELVYN RUBENFIRE The wisest thing to do in order to be happy is to believe & trust in God! Alleluia! Amen! MELVYN M. LUSTERIO As you raise the levels of HDL cholesterol, the risk of heart attacks and strokes can decrease. DR. MELVYN RUBENFIRE Historically, things that are bad for you are the things you want. But research shows that's not alw... DR. MELVYN RUBENFIRE SIR WILLIAM BRAGG Sound is a movement which is handed on from atom to atom in a gas through which the sound is passing... WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them b... WILLIAM BRAGG SR. SIR WILLIAM BRAGG I've often been impressed with a girl Who could sing for her supper - and breakfast as well WILLIAM BRAGG SR. The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinkin... WILLIAM BRAGG, SR. SIR WILLIAM BRAGG The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found... WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinkin... WILLIAM BRAGG SR. God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them b... WILLIAM BRAGG SR. I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contac... WILLIAM LAWRENCE BRAGG When a liquid boils, the temperature has been raised to such a pitch that the evaporating molecules ... WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG SIR WILLIAM BRAGG They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for
himself, but for his character, for hi... GENERAL EDWARD STUYVESANT BRAGG [Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their poi... WILLIAM LAWRENCE BRAGG The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinkin... WILLIAM BRAGG SR. Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand time... WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG
There is no greater glory than to die for love. 
No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. 
There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c... 
It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo... 
We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. 
The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed. 
No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... 
You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now. 
Life is a journey, not a destination. 
Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti... 
To him, even the momentary was momentous. 
I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live. 
I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al... 
Tomorrow is tomorrow.
I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. ... 
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." 
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. 
When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo... 
If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. 
Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... 
What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s... 
What day is it?"
Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is yo... 
Better to play dumb than to go as smartass… after all smartasses get what they deserve in the end.... 
Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life ... 
Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q... 
That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere... 
Be present in all things and thankful for all things. 
And let me tell you something else, my friend," she said in the precise enunciation of a trained nur... 
Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there... 
The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment. 
como toda pregunta sobre el universo, esta vía de investigación nos obliga inevitablemente a pregu... 
All the things that are in the past are in the past. 
Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to to... 
If I died now," he said, "you would hardly remember me when you are my age."
The twentieth century French dramatist Jean Anouilh wrote a play about Beckett which was made into a... 
I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I ... 
People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant. 
This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ea... 
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinkin... 
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them b... 