Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
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Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
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In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
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Even though you were once a goddess, Kalidasa’s heaven was only an illusion.
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He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art.
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For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus.
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One of the stupidest theories of Western life.
