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'm particularly fond of boned chicken breasts with a little garlic under the flesh and cooked in a casserole for 40 minutes with a jar of olives, some cherry tomatoes and a spoonful of olive oil.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Oil
  • Chicken
  • Cherry

• 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

• As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don't try, you won't find out if you get them or not.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Know
  • Find
  • Possibilities

• 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

• Social media companies must work closely with the U.S. government to ensure their platforms are not being used by terrorist organizations to do harm to our country.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Work
  • Country
  • Media

• 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

• How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably more perfect than at any previous time, one which does not break with the past, while it brings a sense of comely order, and a radiant beauty, to cottage and manor alike.

  

  William Rothenstein
  • Today
  • Perfect
  • Beauty

• I saw the sunlight in a leafy place, Bathing itself in liquid green and amber-- Where every flower had tears hid in its petals, And every leaf was lovely with the rain.

  

  Ernest Rhys
  • Tears
  • Rain
  • Sunlight

• I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life.

  

  Leo Fitzpatrick
  • Life
  • School
  • Art

• All my life I have been favored by incredible luck. It would take too long to enumerate all of the occasions...

  

  Claude Simon
  • Long
  • My Life
  • Luck

• Women know that we're not just strong. We're not just vulnerable. We are not just attractive or not attractive. We are many things at once, and we're able to see into that complexity.

  

  Elisabeth Moss
  • Women
  • Strong

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

  

  David H. Murdock