Al Murray Quotes
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
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We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.
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The FA Cup for all the fans does mean something special.
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I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.
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I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do 'Jesus Christ Super Star' in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films.
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There should be a place and the space for all pop.
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That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
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'You’re just getting old.' She gave a dramatic sigh. 'Truly, all the more’s the tragedy; the second thing to go is a man’s memory.'
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Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.
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When I am making a TV show, I am looking for engagement, not admiration.
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This industry is tough on relationships. I've always thought that my wife should have a credit up alongside mine because I couldn't do what I do without her support.
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Michael Grimm never met a tax he didn't lie to evade.
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Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when in the 1890s. I received the Darwin Medal and the Huxley Medal. When one is old, one wants no encouragement and one goes on with one's work to the extent of one's power, because it has become habitual.
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It's always been my dream to be an attorney, and I'm that weird breed of human being that loves being in a courtroom.
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I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.
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Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.
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Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
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We need a war every 10 years, so we can stay match fit in case the Germans try again.
