Murray Walker Quotes
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One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.
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You don't know what love is, until you've learned the meaning of the blues, until you've loved a love you've had to lose.
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Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.
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There is a very real danger that financial regulation will become a wolf in sheep's clothing.
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This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.
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Very often when I haven't faith in my faith, I have to have faith in His faith. He makes me believe in myself and my possibilities, when I simply can't. I have to rise to His faith in me.
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I write out of my intellectual experience.
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What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.
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It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.
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When bitter enemies make peace, surely some bitterness remains.
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To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot because it can be longer-lasting, costly to the society but not wantonly destructive, moreover, it is more difficult for Government to quell it by superior force.
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It takes falling down a bunch of times before you start running.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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You can't look at the competition and say you're going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you're going to do it differently.
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Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.
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I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.
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Regard everyone you meet as the Buddha and you will know 10,000 Buddhas.
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There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.
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I'm not an expert in it, but it seems to me that you have to let the market forces go their course.
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I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.
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Merchandisers, by embedding subliminal trigger devices in media, are able to evoke a strong emotional relationship between, say, a product perceived in an advertisement weeks before and the strongest of all emotional stimuli - love (sex) and death.
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Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.
