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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Regard everyone you meet as the Buddha and you will know 10,000 Buddhas.
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The climate issue is for the state. It is an obligation for all governments.
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A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the one and only reality. In such cases we have a sense in which the performer comes to be his own audience; he comes to be performer and observer of the same show. Presumably he introcepts or incorporates the standards he attempts to maintain in the presence of others so that even in their absence his conscience requires him to act in a socially proper way.
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Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.
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Some never get started on their destiny course because they cannot humble themselves to learn, grow, and change.
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Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.
