Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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If diversity is O.K. for God, it ought to be O.K. for Republicans.
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Taking legislative authority away from the federal government doesn't necessarily mean freer individuals. It might just mean granting vastly more authority to the states--which already have far broader police powers than most of us would care to admit.
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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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If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
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I believe the best managers acknowledge and make room for what they do not know—not just because humility is a virtue but because until one adopts that mindset, the most striking breakthroughs cannot occur. I believe that managers must loosen the controls, not tighten them. They must accept risk; they must trust the people they work with and strive to clear the path for them; and always, they must pay attention to and engage with anything that creates fear. Moreover, successful leaders embrace the reality that their models may be wrong or incomplete. Only when we admit what we don’t know can we ever hope to learn it.
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Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.
