Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
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I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator, a musician, a producer. I love everything. I've studied languages from Farsi to Greek to French, Swedish, Russian... How can you get bored?
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
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In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
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I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.
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You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
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I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.
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With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.
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Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.
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The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.
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Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.
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Sex on the brain is the wrong place to have it.
