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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Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we already, and prepared, to die with a clean heart.
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A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the space, and wakes further still in response to what people are making of it.
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The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her children doing their homework at the kitchen table.
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My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.
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No woman can become or remain degraded without all women suffering.
