Jaime Murray Quotes
Everyone thinks England and America are the same, as we have the same language, but I felt like an alien as an English person living in America.
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I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.
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While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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I really feel my family is my priority.
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The public has been told repeatedly that terrorism is 'evil,' which it undoubtedly is, and that 'evildoers' are responsible for it, which doubtless they are. But beyond these justifiable condemnations, there is a historical void.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
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Oil wells never really run dry. A big company will drain maybe 40% of a field. Pulling out the rest of the oil, which requires an outlay of incrementally more cash per barrel, often proves uneconomical for big companies with big overheads.
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Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.
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Everyone thinks England and America are the same, as we have the same language, but I felt like an alien as an English person living in America.
