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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The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.
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For every moment of triumph, there is an unequal and opposite feeling of despair. Take that iconic photograph of Muhammad Ali standing triumphantly over the prostrate, semiconscious wreckage of Sonny Liston. Great photo. Now think of Liston. Do the pleasure/pain calculus.
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I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.
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The human body as an obedient coolie, to be fed and hosed down, and given just enough sexual freedom to sedate itself.
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If things do go badly, will I wonder for the rest of my life what I might have done to help?
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Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age.
