Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
Larry Ellison
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
D. A. Pennebaker
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Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
E. L. Doctorow
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I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.
Marie Curie
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'Landfill' by Daughter has calming, rich tones that are only improved upon by the gorgeous voice of Daughter.
Ben Lovett
Mumford & Sons
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I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I moved to Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, all through the South. But my family's roots were from central Florida, like Daytona Beach area, so we ended up moving there.
Diplo
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Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.
Kurt Masur
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I do prefer playing baddies because you can push being horrible as far as you want.
Alfie Allen
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The IOC have decided Russia will pay them £50 million, and that is their punishment for 40 years of duping the world and going against every single clean athlete on earth. The IOC has fought a spectacular fraud with more fraud.
Bryan Fogel
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If I have a really bad cook or a bad manager or bad sous-chef, I previously would have fired them or lost my temper. But now I realize that if I'm so right, then I should be able to communicate it so clearly that they get it.
David Chang
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Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the 74th white one. And never mind all this talk about America electing its first black President; Barack Obama is actually the 44th white man to hold the job.
Jeffrey Kluger
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I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life.
Ben Fountain
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The way I choose to dress, I want to influence other people around me, I suppose.
Bindi Irwin
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Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.
Bill Nye
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The Internet rewards scale; by trading higher up-front costs for lower marginal cost, market leaders can invest in better technology and service. As a result, there is nothing online that is both great in quality and small in scale. Amazon wasn't originally a better bookstore than the small shops we mourn, but it is now.
John Katzman
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Scientists want to know the evidence behind a statement; they want reproducible tests and verifiable facts. There is a big difference in the thought process of a trial lawyer who is interested not in what's true but what he can convince a jury is true.
Bill Foster
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I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.
Brian Aldiss
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We have to take care of our own game. There's only one place we've got to stick up for ourselves and that's the pitch.
Andrew Flintoff
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By the 1970s, pornography had caught up with The Block, where performers were totally in the nude. I wasn't going to do that, and I certainly wasn't about to let my girls do it. After all, I'm religious, and if my mother knew I was performing in the nude, she would have had a heart attack.
Blaze Starr
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I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other than going to your desk and writing, when every closet is reorganized and you've called your oldest living relative twice in one day to see what she's up to and there isn't an unanswered e-mail left on your computer or you simply can't bear to answer another one and there is no dignity, not a drop left, in any further evasion of the task at hand, namely writing, well, you can always ask your dentist for a root canal or have an accident in the bathtub instead.
Tony Kushner
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I'm a fan of musicals from great masters, and I was able to have an opportunity to express myself in musical numbers with Glee.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
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How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.
Malcolm Muggeridge
