Iris Murdoch Quotes
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.
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I love my sleep.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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I like my world to be calm.
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Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit... We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be.
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Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.
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I always give myself a three-month period where I would just hibernate and wouldn't even think about the baby weight. I would just be with my baby in my own little world. And then, once I started getting more energy and wasn't so tired, then I would hit the gym.
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The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
