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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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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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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Marriage is tough. I can tell my wife all day long that I love her, but it doesn't mean anything if you don't show that.
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When you are in the big competition for the first time, you grow, and then you lose something when you go back into your own competition.
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The thriller protagonist is really just us in extremis. He or she is this individual who is placed under enormous pressure, has huge moral dilemmas and decisions to make.
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Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.
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When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I said right then, 'That's what I want to do someday,' and it's been one dream that has come true.
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If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent, then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see, there is simply no escape.
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Smoking Cigars is like falling in love. First, you are attracted by its shape; you stay for its flavor, and you must always remember never, never to let the flame go out!
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The American dream? We don't have a dream in Britain because we're bloody awake!
