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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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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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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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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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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If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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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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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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Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.
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The thing I believe is we are good if our peers think we're great. But we are great if the real world thinks we're good. And there's a huge difference.
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Sometimes in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself.
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The American dream? We don't have a dream in Britain because we're bloody awake!
