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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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• I think that an advanced planetary civilization will modify their own planets to be more stable, to prevent asteroid impacts and dangerous climate fluctuations.

  

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• And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!

  

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• One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.

  

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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