Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be! I would almost rather eliminate happiness. The world would be the most ghastly place because everything that corrects the tendency of this unspeakable little creature, man, to feel over-important and over-pleased with himself would disappear. He's bad enough now, but he would be absolutely intolerable if he never suffered.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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People take things so seriously.
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
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Unfortunately with the media, the red tops, and all the celebrity weekly magazines, the ones who were once loyal - well, when I say loyal, this is a game; this is a game that we're in. If it's your time to get picked on, then you get picked on, and, you know, I'm used to that.
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A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
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There is no other genre that deals with America better, in a subtextual way, than the Westerns being made in the different decades. The '50s Westerns very much put forth an Eisenhower idea of America, whereas the Westerns of the '70s were very cynical about America.
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I'd rather make less money and live in a just world.
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Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be! I would almost rather eliminate happiness. The world would be the most ghastly place because everything that corrects the tendency of this unspeakable little creature, man, to feel over-important and over-pleased with himself would disappear. He's bad enough now, but he would be absolutely intolerable if he never suffered.
