David H. Murdock Quotes
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
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In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
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If our hearts were truly pure, we would never have our fill of the words of your Lord
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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Taking the company private was not the easiest thing I've done in my life.
