David H. Murdock Quotes

I never have anything go wrong. Never have a backache. Never have a headache. Never have anything else.

David H. Murdock

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• The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Gentle
  • Haitian

• You can't get emotional about your work.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Work
  • You
  • Emotional

• I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • People
  • Hope
  • Myself

• The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • War
  • History
  • True

• I am less comfortable saying I am a jeweller and more comfortable saying I am a story teller.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Comfortable
  • Teller
  • Jeweller

• My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Route

• I suppose popularity is measured by ratings. If a broadcaster is known as the leader because of ratings, then that's where people most want to be seen and heard, so there's no question that there's an advantage.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • People
  • Want
  • Question

• I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Book
  • Simple
  • Myself

• I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Support
  • Friend
  • Proud

• I've gravitated towards independent cinema because you have to work harder in studio scripts to flesh out characters, particularly female ones. They are not as sharply edged, they tend to be quite watery. They are not renderings of women as I know them.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Work
  • Women
  • Independent

• You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • School
  • Technology

• Like all great minds that do not merely imagine Utopias, but actually advance humanity to a new epoch, he Jesus took the situation and material furnished to him by the past and molded that into a fuller approximation to the divine conception within him.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Great
  • Past
  • Jesus

• The power of fantasy is so strong that people think they are having a good time when they are merely wasting money.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Her face was that of a boy gang-leader, smooth with the innocence of one who, by the same quirk as blinds a man to the mystery of whistling or riding a bicycle, has never mastered the art of affection or compassion or properly learned the moral dichotomy.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Art
  • Moral
  • Boy

• By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.

  

  Ben Horowitz
  • Mind
  • Design
  • Psychology

• I really just want to change the way women think about themselves. A lot of young girls are quite lost.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Women
  • Lost

• I remember the first time I walked on that stage. Maxine and I were just a duet at the time, and we walked on that stage and did 'Looking Back to See.' Ernest Tubb introduced us at the time. I remember my knees were shaking.

  

  Jim Ed Brown
  • Time
  • Remember

• I was a tennis player in high school and college.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • School
  • High
  • College

• And I knew then, as I know now, that I still have so much to do.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Doing
  • I Knew

• I think when things get hard with your family, it's really easy to want to isolate yourself. The world is so harsh, so when stuff happens outside, you want to go to your family, but when stuff happens inside your family, you sort of start to feel like, 'I'm alone. There is no place I can go to where just nothing will happen to me.'

  

  Dove Cameron
  • World
  • Family
  • Alone

• Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Life
  • Real

• But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • She
  • Lost
  • Wife

• I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

  

  Sonya Hartnett
  • Long
  • Beautiful
  • Dying

• I never have anything go wrong. Never have a backache. Never have a headache. Never have anything else.

  

  David H. Murdock