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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Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest.
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It's a pity if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very thin slice of what's desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they're doing.
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When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.
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Anytime you want to hear about graph partitioning, I will be glad to tell you what I know about graph partitioning. It remains a standard problem. I think it's an interesting problem, because it shows up in a variety of guises in real life.
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God gets me into a relationship with Himself whereby I understand His call, then I do things out of sheer love for Him on my own account. To serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
