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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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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Instead of trying to still his fears he encouraged them, with that superstitious impression which clings to us all, that if we expect evil very strongly it is the less likely to come; . . .
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There is so much to be gained from adulthood! Feelings just become so much deeper. The feeling of sadness and loss is much deeper than when you were a kid, but the feelings of love and happiness have also so much more dimension when you get older... That is what's so hard and exciting about being a human being.
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I know without our fans and the devotion of our fans we wouldn't be here. I don't mean to put them down, but I'm just stating a fact that it is hard to play to people that see you all the time and it takes a lot of fun out of it in some ways.
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I was once an employee myself, so I know what employees want.
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Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.
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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.
