Murray Kempton Quotes
Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
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Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.
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People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
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And I think I have a distinct voice.
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High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
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Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.
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I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.
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Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does 'culture' become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can at best appreciate the monuments of earlier faith; it cannot produce them.
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I think it's just a nerve-wracking thing to sing in a movie in general.
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I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.
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I'd really love to watch David Lynch work, to be a fly on the wall.
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My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'
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It's cool to go places where working people are happy.
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U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined.
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There are always things that I'd love to do. As an actor, none of them are specific; all I'm looking for are things that are good quality, that are challenging for me to work on, and even better if I get to work with people that I respect and am excited to work with.
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It's interesting - Pluto's almost a brand unto itself. It's the farthest. It's the most diminutive of the classical planets. It's been maligned by astronomers. It's always the one with all the question marks in the back of the textbook in the table. I think children identify with it because it's smaller, kind of cute.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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The way I try to live is 'Be here now.' Be your best self now.
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Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.
