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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Up until the last minute, it was art and drawing for me. That was the first real and natural thing I thought I was good at and loved to do. But I developed a similar kind of love for music.
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Favorite Bat-gadget was probably the Batboat, because it was fun to get out on the ocean and run that thing around at high speed.
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Order is the pleasure of the reason; but disorder is the delight of the imagination.
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I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World.
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Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person.
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The main thing is to be a force, so guys will say, 'Tooz is kicking butts.'
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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.
