Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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'The HoneyLine' is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I have never spoken for anyone but myself.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.
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I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
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I try to keep an even keel.
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I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.
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Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
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I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.
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It’s a pretty good rule to remember that every time we come into contact with another person, even though just walking a block, our job is to lead him to a higher plane than that one on which we found him.
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What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians... All publication s masquerading under the name of ragtime are not the genuine article... That real ragtime of the higher class is rather difficult to play is a painful truth which most pianists have discovered. Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music... Joplin ragtime is destroyed by careless or imperfect rendering, and very often players lost the effect entirely by playing too fast.
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The IFP is here to put into practice what we preach.
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I don't ever want to impose something on the story. I want the story to tell me.
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History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
