Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
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The maimed bodies aren't the worst. That's the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I - hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at home.
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When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty clothes of everyday, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the antique courts of the ancients and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born. And there I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives of their actions, and they, in their humanity, reply to me. And for the space of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexation, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death; I pass indeed into their world.
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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
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I was extremely shy, but since college, I think I have opened up and gained confidence. I find it much easier to make friends, I let myself go a bit more.
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The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.
