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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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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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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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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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 think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.
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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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It was a good rule not to expect the ideal but to enjoy what is possible.
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I'm amazed that I can sit down, put a guitar in my hands and start playing kind of free style, and it will be four hours later and it will feel like it's been five minutes. I think that adds depth to your being, when something in your life can do that for you. Everybody should try to find something in their life that can do that for them. People find really elaborate self-destructive ways of killing time on this planet. That's why they take drugs or drink, trying to alter their state of being. If you can find something that doesn't destroy you, but deepens your character, you're really lucky.
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Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.
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The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again.
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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.
