Iris Murdoch Quotes
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When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.
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The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.
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I was always very focused on how people dressed.
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I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science.
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If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on soldierly obedience, and on showy security drills, then a decentralized security scheme is useless.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.
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I feel like I'm really lucky.
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I like when a guy makes me feel like a woman and a little girl at the same time.
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When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were required to live among themselves.
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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A script like 'The Sixth Sense' is fun to read: It's so well-written, and you get a vivid sense of what's going to be onscreen.
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I would love do a guest spot on 'Castle' because Nathan Fillion is so dreamy, and he and I are friends. And I think we could have a lot of fun.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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In 1986, Microsoft and Oracle went public within a day of each other, and I recall telling one of my colleagues that the software business will become big. So I started working with software companies in the mid-'80s and never turned back.
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As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Cinema is incredibly concise.
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How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.
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For us, sovereignty of Syria is very important.
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Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.
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If you could only hear what I dream.
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We 'have all we want' is a terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an interruption. As St. Augustine says somewhere, 'God wants to give us something, but cannot, because our hands are full - there's nowhere for Him to put it.'
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All metaphysical theories are inconclusively vulnerable to positivist attack.
