Madalyn Murray O'Hair Quotes

The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his is the job to turn his culture from religion, to eliminate those irrational ideas which have held the human race in intellectual slavery.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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• It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.

  

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• Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.

  

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• What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.

  

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• I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

  

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• I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

  

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• We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.

  

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• Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

  

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• I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

  

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• The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

  

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• I think that Americans, they love comfort more than Europeans. Americans created the T-shirt, the sweat pants, and they create the best sporting shoes.

  

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• The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.

  

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• Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.

  

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• Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.

  

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• Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

  

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• I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

  

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• I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.

  

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• I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.

  

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• It's almost like, it's often the bad recording quality of things which makes them interesting.

  

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• The value of small business contracting is indisputable. These firms bring healthy competition to the federal market to drive down prices. They are our nation's innovators and job creators, and securing a federal contract helps them grow and offers more benefit to the economy.

  

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• We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

  

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• There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.

  

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• But friends, those I wanted to please? There are so few, so few... and you're one of them. You... because you have such a gift for life. You grab hold of it with both hands. You move, you dance, you know how to make the rain and the sunshine in a home. You have this incredible gift for making people around you happy. You're so at ease, so at ease on this little planet.

  

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• The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his is the job to turn his culture from religion, to eliminate those irrational ideas which have held the human race in intellectual slavery.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Job
  • Culture
  • Opinion