Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.
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Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.
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The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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I am not into marriage. You look at all the marriages breaking down and all the people cheating on their marriages, and you become cynical. Marriage is nothing but a label.
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a sports management degree because I realized the NBA's not going to happen.
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I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.
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I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
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Brexit was not a coup. Far from it. In the eyes of most analysts, it was a clear sign that people are frustrated and fed up with the status quo; this is particularly the case with independent voters.
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One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.
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The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.
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It's better to have tried and failed than never tried, you can rest easy knowing you gave it a go.
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There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.
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Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.
