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'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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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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Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.
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Life's up and down from the time you get here to the time you leave.
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Grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is big enough to swamp and drown you if you suddenly stop moving forward. But if you do keep moving, the big wake will eventually dissipate. And after a long time, the waters of your life get calm again, and that is when the memories of those who have left begin to shine as bright and as enduring as the stars above.
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You have to be able to unleash your inner goofball with me.
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Taking the company private was not the easiest thing I've done in my life.
