Iris Murdoch Quotes
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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Death always seems to be around me.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.
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Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
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Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.
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The single most important thing we can do today to ensure a strong, successful future for Wisconsin is invest in our kids early - because what we do now will determine what kind of state Wisconsin will be 10, 20, even 50 years from now.
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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People think I'm a gambler. I've never gambled in my life. To me, a gambler is someone who plays slot machines. I prefer to own slot machines. It's a very good business being the house.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
