Iris Murdoch Quotes
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.
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You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.
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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students.
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When you're listening to a recording, you're supposedly listening to some aspect of the past in the present as you travel slowly into the future, but you also know there's a very strong likelihood that the future of that recording, whether you made it or whether you're listening to a Led Zeppelin record, is going to continue probably far beyond where you are.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
