Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
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I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.
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One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.
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I am healthy and happy.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.
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My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
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I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street.
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I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction.
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Certainly we do not need quantum mechanics for macroscopic objects, which are well described by classical physics – this is the reason why quantum mechanics seems so foreign to our everyday existence.
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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.
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Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.
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The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
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The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
