Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates.

Malcolm Muggeridge

• Hope
• Television
• Piano
• Clients
• Inmates
• Solaces

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• My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

  

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• I think America has a brilliant future.

  

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• My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.

  

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• I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.

  

  Nathaniel Buzolic
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• I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.

  

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• I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.

  

  Laila Ali
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• I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.

  

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• The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.

  

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• I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like that. My parents were secular, but I went to a very Orthodox Jewish school, and I really got into it. I found it all fascinating, and I was just kind of really attracted to the metaphysical questions.

  

  Larry Charles
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• I feel God has sent me to Earth to sing. I started singing when I was five, but I don't think I've worked as hard as many other people.

  

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• I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.

  

  Rachel Miner
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• The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• Always believe what you see - with your own eyes, that is. Always believe what you see. That's the best way to go about this business. I've heard a lot of things about a lot of people, and it was never true.

  

  R. Kelly
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• A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.

  

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• Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.

  

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• After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.

  

  L'Wren Scott
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• I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.

  

  Billy Crystal

• Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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• I've been acting since I was five, and I hope it's something I can do forever. I love it.

  

  Madison Pettis
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• But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

  

  Origen
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• I didn't grow up in a small New England town like the one in 'The Sundial.' I was raised in an apartment building in Queens, not in a sprawling, slightly sinister mansion like the one where the Halloran family resides.

  

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• On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Hope
  • Television
  • Piano