George Murray Quotes
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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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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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.
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I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.
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I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.
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It's my approach as a filmmaker always to go in, not with a thesis or preconceived notion, but with curiosity and questions and inquiry. So in some way, I'm always surprised. I'm always finding paths of engagement.
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I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
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You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.
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We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.
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I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.
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My father is my idol, and I have grown up watching his films. He is my biggest influence and inspiration. I have learnt a lot from him, and I am who I am because of him. I'm extremely grateful to him for that.
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God gave me the strength to see, and breathe, and talk.
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I had always studied French and was obsessed with French films. I hated the way American films always had happy endings. I liked the way French films had dark and unpleasant characters; it was much more realistic.
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I was never in an improv group. But when I went to school, we would do it all day long with friends, not knowing what it was called.
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I do try to let what is obviously unintended yet naturally good stay in.
