John Murray Quotes
Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.
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I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
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The sprint is sometimes like a toss of a coin. Sometimes it's heads, and sometimes it's tails.
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My mother is very funny. She is from a village; she has a typical village kind of humour. Often she says a lot of things she herself isn't aware is a punch line.
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If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.
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My interest in protein breakdown as a research problem began in l955 at about the time I joined the Biochemistry Department of Yale University. It was known that proteins break down intracellularly in the mature animal.
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What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.
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Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.
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I used to keep injuries to myself. It would just make it worse and worse. Now I'm having none of that.
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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
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Cycling was the sport of our family - we did it all the time, five days a week.
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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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She had been dressed in her sky-blue gown and had been suddenly almost terrible in her completeness-so different from the ragged serving girl who had slept on his shoulder. And yet, the very same girl had been inside that blue dress.
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The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
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To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training - is about.
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You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.
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He wondered again, for the hundredth hundredth time, why these men, reckoned by their country to be the dregs of society, fought so well, so willingly, so bravely.
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Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.
