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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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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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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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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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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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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Well, when you're playing a role, you have to think, 'What is ultimately motivating the character?'
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I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
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A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.
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I was going to get a degree in economics and be a teacher. But I couldn't afford to pay for the education. So I just got the MBA and not the doctorate. I loved it at Bain, and I've been there ever since.
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There are plenty of secondary characters that I had always hoped to write, but I don't know if it will ever happen. The way contracts work, if you leave one publishing house for another, the characters tend to stay with the previous publishing house.
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We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.
