Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded.
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The Army was my bread and butter.
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I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them.
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I don't want to bore myself, so I'm always writing new music. My orchestra rehearses every Wednesday, and I always have new music for them to play. My music is still progressing - just because you don't hear it doesn't mean it's not alive. The music is complicated, but it's about emotion. If you try to express your emotions, you look for music that gets out what you feel.
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I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama.
