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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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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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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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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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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When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.
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Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack.
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According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
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Taking the company private was not the easiest thing I've done in my life.
