David H. Murdock Quotes
I once in a while cheat and have a little ice cream, and then I kind of blame myself.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
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You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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Ben Henderson, he had never been knocked out before fighting me.
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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When I was a kid, I wasn't looking at the small-budget films myself. I was looking at 'James Bond' and all the major films, so I still have that energy. I still love those films.
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I loved the writing process. I loved it.
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I'm no intellect. I'm no preacher. I'm an entertainer. And If I don't get up there and entertain people, I'm not giving them what they paid for.
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My grandfather and I were very close.
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Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.
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'What do I care for the god?' the woman suddenly screamed, catching up her dead child. 'What god is he that takes away my son and leaves me nothing?'
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The public...demands certainties...But there are no certainties.
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'Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' or 'this financier, who controls the world's money markets?''
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When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.
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We have had eight years of consistent and persistent attacks on those four years in government - and on me, personally, but that does not matter - by people who were collectively responsible for those four years.
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Is 'Cowboy Casanova' about the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys? No. I would never immortalize a guy that did me wrong. I would never give him that much credit.
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Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make.
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In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.
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I find it hard to imagine how someone listens to my stuff, or views what I do, or me, or anything.
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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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I once in a while cheat and have a little ice cream, and then I kind of blame myself.
