Iris Murdoch Quotes
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.
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My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.
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I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.
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We need to walk, just as birds need to fly. We need to be around other people. We need beauty. We need contact with nature. And most of all, we need not to be excluded. We need to feel some sort of equality.
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I love doing crosswords, it's so important to keep the brain going.
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Ultimately, no man or woman is happy unless they have found a way to contribute beyond themselves.
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There is no doubt that we cannot do without variable quantities in the sense of the potential infinite. But from this very fact the necessity of the actual infinite can be demonstrated.
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I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
