Mike Murdock Quotes
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
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I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.
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We've been together 32 years and married for 27.
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The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex and the City they always make it better or worse than real life and I am actually saying that in a joking way.
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I think the song itself, 'Smoke and Fire,' is just a metaphor for the feelings that you feel in a relationship.
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Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
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Does one ever know oneself why one laughs?
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When I was a child, eight or ten years old, I made a solemn promise to God that, when I grew up, I would write him a hymn for the prayer-book. The vow has never been fulfilled. But I have painted a large number of pictures, and there must be more than thirty religious ones. I wonder if they will do instead.
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Digitas is a company that's very rapidly changing - the digital world changes every day. It's important we hire people who are curious about what's going on and who are willing to learn and want to learn. I look for core leadership traits.
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I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff.
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It's fun to do accents; it's fun to do different periods - that's why you become an actor. Because it's fun to be a storyteller and play make-believe.
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When wrong people leave your life, wrong things stop happening
