David H. Murdock Quotes
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My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.
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Bollywood has always pampered heroes and treated actors as second class citizens. But, of late, it has realised that there has to be space for actors who can connect with people.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.
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Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.
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I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
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The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.
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I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
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I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.
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Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
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I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.
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A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.
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I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.
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One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might be useful, or at least entertaining, to somebody else.
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Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
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Diamonds are a girl's best friend, and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.
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O my people, I disavow all that you associate with God. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.
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If your are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.
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In my first publishable research, I obtained evidence that the replication of polio viral RNA engendered a multi-stranded intermediate, although my description of that intermediate proved flawed in its details.
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I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded.
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I was class president, on the cheerleading squad, in a competitive show choir, and in, like, six different clubs.
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My day begins a little before 6 A.M. I never set an alarm clock.
