Iris Murdoch Quotes
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.
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Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.
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Increased adrenaline was responsible for our participants’ dramatic rise in heart rate and blood pressure while listening to their trauma narrative. Under normal conditions people react to a threat with a temporary increase in their stress hormones. As soon as the threat is over, the hormones dissipate and the body returns to normal. The stress hormones of traumatized people, in contrast, take much longer to return to baseline and spike quickly and disproportionately in response to mildly stressful stimuli. The insidious effects of constantly elevated stress hormones include memory and attention problems, irritability, and sleep disorders.
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The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.
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Obviously, given the objective that we have, what I would hope is that people would be able to see that actually we had reduced the numbers of people, the net number of people, coming into the country. People would, presumably, see that, but it's difficult to say how.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
