Rupert Murdoch (Keith Rupert Murdoch) Quotes
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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I don't care about revenues.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
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I guess music is very global.
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Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.
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I have a very big family and a lot of friends, and buying presents is one of my favorite things to do.
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There is failure in every industry; there is failure in every step. It's just that we are working in an industry where everything is just out there; that is why it looks so magnified. But failure is a part of life.
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I don't wanna be a rock star. I don't believe in rock stars. If you really examine what goes with being a rock star, I've avoided that really well.
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That the object of the Brahmins in giving up beef-eating was to snatch away from the Buddhist Bhikshus the supremacy they had acquired is evidenced by the adoption of vegetarianism by Brahmins.
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I've seen a shift in general about the literacy of the public to what Tourette's is. And that's a testament to local kids and parents having the courage to share their experience.
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My father was a very big musical influence on me. He was a trumpet player. And that's what I started with. Then, when I was 7, my parents introduced me to the piano.
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I remember early on, in my very, very early days, I had a makeup artist tell me that I needed to get an attitude. I had no idea what he was talking about.
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I'd like to direct something at the Public.
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I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?
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Most people don't want to change. They're comfortable and set in their ways. But in order to change, you have to be able to agitate people at times. And I think that's something that's very necessary for us to improve as a country.
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It is a curious foible of a certain type of mind that it is unable to imagine a newspaper editor as one who may, on some public questions, honestly have the same view as that held by other persons.
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I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.
