Mark V. Hurd Quotes
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
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I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.
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Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
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Secularist justices de-Christianized our country. They invented new rights for vicious criminals as though criminal justice were a game. They tore our country apart with idiotic busing orders to achieve racial balance in public schools.
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I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.
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Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.
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I'll read a recipe but then decide, 'Well, it's sort of like this, then.' Or I'll go to the fridge and think, 'I'll see what I can put together,' and I'll combine beetroot and sausage and prawns with goat's cheese sprinkled on top and think, 'I like that they're all slightly pink. It looks fine and... actually, it is fine.'
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Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation - then we should worry.
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Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.
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Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas – including this one.
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My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.
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If I were to do this over I'd play a lot more shows before I made a record.
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The moment a large investor doesn't believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it will, a crisis of confidence could develop. Investors have scant patience for the years of good governance - politically fraught fiscal restructuring, austerity and debt rescheduling - it takes to defuse a sovereign-debt crisis.
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'Hurt Village' is based on a real housing project in Memphis, about three minutes away from the Lorraine Hotel where Dr. King was assassinated, so in my work I'm focusing on a very specific area in Memphis. I see 'Hurt Village' as a natural extension of 'The Mountaintop.'
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Being able to evolve great franchises over time is the foundation of world-class entertainment companies.
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It's important to know when your work is done.
