Iris Murdoch Quotes
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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I'm a composer, man.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.
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We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.
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All artists are equal when they are themselves.
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The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life...
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death.
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I had discovered that there was something more painful than falling in love with someone who hasn't fallen for you; hurting that person-hurting him and not being able to do anything about it.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
