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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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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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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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
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We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body.
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My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.
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Let's not fantasize about having a world of only trans people or only of LGBTQ people. Let's fantasize about a world in which we all can co-exist and where there is just talent that recognizes talent.
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When I work with a character like Valjean on stage, I get totally absorbed in that man. I become that man. But there's always, outside of that, the third eye, which watches what you're doing. And you can say to yourself, 'I'm crying well' or 'I'm being angry well.' But there's always that element there, and it never stops.
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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.
