John Murray Quotes
All elections revolve around and are often resolved by who raises the most money. That's unfair. I'd like to see that process changed, but it seems once you win and get to Congress, that doesn't happen.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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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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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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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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If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they're usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they'll go and live in peace together around the hot springs, which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy.
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I've enjoyed all the work I've done, and I feel quite lucky that I haven't been playing sweet girls all the time.
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For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.
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Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
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It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.
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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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I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.
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The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.
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I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.
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My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
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I was discovered on YouTube and I think I was detrimental to my own career.
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Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.
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All elections revolve around and are often resolved by who raises the most money. That's unfair. I'd like to see that process changed, but it seems once you win and get to Congress, that doesn't happen.
