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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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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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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Nothing in the world causes more problems than concepts of ethnic virtue. It's irrelevant.
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I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested in exploring this idea of the ecstatic impulse in an artist.
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Every mode of technology is a reflex of our most intimate psychological experience. (p. 171)
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I once in a while cheat and have a little ice cream, and then I kind of blame myself.
