Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.
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I think that when you write for stars, I think that you have to be very specific about what they do beautifully and let them bring it to life.
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The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live? There are different modes of survival. But all are not equally honorable.
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Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.
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I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.
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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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The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.
