Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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Curbside is primed to fundamentally change the way people shop - by creating a seamless way for consumers to access products from local merchants - by successfully developing complex location and inventory technology.
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I love seeing what people wear out to dinner in different cities. I know how differently I dress in New York than I do in Los Angeles.
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When you see a country take care of its people regardless of class, or how much money they make, or what color they are, that's pretty inspiring.
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When I hear the word "documentary," I don't think certain things should be left out. You've got to keep it 100 percent as much as you can, unless your group has a meeting beforehand and says, "Yo -- don't say this, 'cause boom, boom, boom." Other than that, it's a documentary so let's document, you know what I mean?
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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.
