Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.
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I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.
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What can you do? You're never going to be - I'm sure there are people out there who think Cindy Crawford isn't pretty.
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This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.
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I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.
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My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
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I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.
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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
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I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.
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Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
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I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.
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In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.
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The PC is successful because we're all benefiting from the competition with each other. If Twitter comes along, our games benefit. If Nvidia makes better graphics technology, all the games are going to shine. If we come out with a better game, people are going to buy more PCs.
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Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
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Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation of terrorists.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime.
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As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in Northern California, and all the political New Journalism stuff, the Boys on the Bus dudes and Ken Kesey.
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Journalism is, indeed, a noble calling, and I have much I hope to accomplish in the next phase of my career.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
