Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.
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As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.
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Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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For me personally, I try to use my size to my advantage where I can either slip by guys or try to create more space for myself.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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And we remember the end of our combat mission and the emergence of a new dawn - the precision of our efforts against al Qaeda in Iraq, the professionalism of the training of Iraqi security forces, and the steady drawdown of our forces. In handing over responsibility to the Iraqis, you preserved the gains of the last four years and made this day possible.
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Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.
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I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.
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The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.
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The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiassed by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.
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The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.
