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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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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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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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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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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To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
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When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.
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I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.
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I'd happily just stay on the road. Getting home from America, sitting in my kitchen with a cup of tea, staring out of the window is pretty depressing. I didn't have a tour manager to tell me what to do so I had to start reaching out to people and making plans. That was hard. You become very vegetable-y.
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People who are ambitious - politicians who crave power - think that they're in control of it, but at some point, the movement that they started overtakes them, and they lose the ability to direct things anymore, and they become essentially riders on a wild stallion, and wherever the movement goes, wherever power takes them, they have to go along.
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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.
