Rupert Murdoch (Keith Rupert Murdoch) Quotes
I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.
Quotes to Explore
-
My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
-
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
-
I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
-
Math is one of my favorite subjects.
-
My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.
-
When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.
-
Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop any discipline.
-
I know my heart, and have studied mankind; I am not made like any one I have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence; if not better, I at least claim originality, and whether Nature did wisely in breaking the mould with which she formed me, can only be determined after having read this work.
-
Heart of my heart, we cannot die! Love triumphant in flower and tree, Every life that laughs at the sky Tells us nothing can cease to be: One, we are one with the song to-day, One with the clover that scents the world, One with the Unknown, far away, One with the stars, when earth grows old.
-
I've read comics all my life and have wanted to write a comic for as long as I can remember. Alex Barnaby and Sam Hooker seemed like the perfect team to make the move into the graphic medium.
-
The story is supposed to change; it's supposed to evolve. In making 'Cartel Land,' I ended up with a much, much different story than I started with.
-
I'm not in the teenybopper bracket, and I'm not in the 30-plus bracket. The fan response has been really widespread, age-wise.
-
Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.
-
I want to soundtrack people's layered feelings.
-
I think any real one-sheet for an album would say, 'Well, here's what I've been doing.' And that would be it.
-
The history of the world is the story of people getting off track.
-
In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.
-
War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.
-
I am not a trained actor and am not near the top of anyone's want list. I go after what I am offered, if I am so inclined. Now and then, I get offers for things that are not to my liking, in that I just don't care about the story. All this super tough guy stuff isn't anything that interests me all that much. I can't think of anything I turned down that I regret.
-
Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.
-
I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.
