George Murphy Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.
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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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I love women more than anything.
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.
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In 1983, my second year of law school, I became the only white player in the Ogden Park Basketball League at 65th and Racine. My teammates joked that I integrated the league, which I guess is true. They weren't so much focused on integration as on winning, and they knew you can't teach height. 'He can't jump, but he sure is tall.'
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We are like soldiers who fall during the assault which leads to peace.
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We believe in the almighty and we believe in God and that music is from God and we're inspired by God to give messages and ideas to people.
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To this day I do not believe I'm great at anything.
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How can you practice dancing in an airplane? There's a law against it.
