Iris Murdoch Quotes
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
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Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the twenty-first century, space scientists are setting Darwin in a grander cosmic context - probing the origins of Earth, stars, atoms and the universe itself.
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As a trader you often walk on the blade. Be careful and don't step off.
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The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.
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All language – everything we say – is just an approximation of reality.
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No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.
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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
