Emily Murphy Quotes
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.
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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
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Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.
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Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.
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They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.
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I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.
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Refuse to lose, Refuse to be defeated, Refuse to have regrets.
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No woman can become or remain degraded without all women suffering.
