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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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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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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We need to invest in our crumbling infrastructure to create jobs and remain economically competitive.
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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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One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.
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I don't want to do just "Hello, goodbye," only for very, very good directors like Jonathan Demme, who asked me to sing this tango in his film The Truth About Charlie (2002). If not, I really take my choices, because I'm too old to say yes to everything, and also, I've done too many good things to go do whatever now.
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If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.
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What I teach the people many times is that attitude and attention will determine the whole course of our lives. Get rid of fear and that is all you ever have to get rid of. Fear of anything at all.
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Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.
