Charles A. Murray (Charles Alan Murray) Quotes
People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned - it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned - and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
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'Castle' isn't really affected emotionally by murder. He's thrilled about, 'Oh, my God, I wonder how this happened?'
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I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.
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I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
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Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
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Pretty much everyday, there's a moment where I'm having to pinch myself and think, 'When did this happen to my life?'
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I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.
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Man must not be turned into a chicken or a rat as in the well-known experiments in which elation is induced electrically through electrodes inserted into the brain. Related to this is the question of the ever-increasing use of tranquilizers and anti-depressants, legal and illegal narcotics, and so forth.
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I think we should all have a private audience with Helen Mirren.
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I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.
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I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.
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I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached.
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I want to put my name in history. I love history.
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There's an old saying in the black community that everybody else is protected and served but we are policed, we don't want to be policed. We want to be protected and served as any American citizen.
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Apple was very important in terms of disrupting the music business and remaking the television business. They made it harder for people to make money on the things that they produce. In news, they've created Apple News, and they've tried to steer people towards information.
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I eat well. I don't really, I guess, like, steam my own food and cook my own food in advance. I enjoy food, but I just don't make bad decisions.
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People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned - it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned - and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.
