Al Murray Quotes
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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I never met a kid I liked.
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Does the global Left - as well as the Israeli Left - truly not care about the horrific Taliban regime, the terrible oppression of women in Gulf states, and the mass hanging festivals in Iran?
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One of the exciting things about an entanglement puzzle is there's no end to it. Once you solve how to take it apart, you have to solve how to put it back together.
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True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.
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I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
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If you're sick, watch funny movies.
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History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
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We’re avant-garde. It doesn’t mean we have to be unhygienic.
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The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.
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I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.
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Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.
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We have cultural depth. We get all kinds of stuff to chew on, to live on.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil.
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If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
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The American dream? We don't have a dream in Britain because we're bloody awake!
