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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A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.
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The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor.
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Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.
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Tech gives people more opportunities to be themselves in front of other people. Sometimes that's great; sometimes it's bad.
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Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature.
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Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age.
