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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What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
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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.
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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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There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.
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I always think, when I'm in motion, writing seems like the most natural thing.
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Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better.
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The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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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.
