Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed – the language, the country – but it is up to me to adapt.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was so much effort I was putting into music. And instead of that, it was a couple tunes that I had reproduced from folk songs to remake as film songs, which were being written about.
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The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems and dealt with them. How did it happen that a cabinet of such brilliant, such clever and self-confident people achieved so little? In part, it was the effect of the whirling court politics demonstrated by 'In Place of Strife'.
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Fame isn't happiness, but success and being respected in your craft is worth fighting for. You've got to work hard to be noticed.
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Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age.
