Charles A. Murray (Charles Alan Murray) Quotes
It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European accomplishment so far ahead of all other cultures and civilizations around the world.Charles A. Murray
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
Taylor Swift -
Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
Gary Lineker -
When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
Kate Bernheimer -
Enjoy every sandwich.
Warren Zevon -
Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
Nadia Comaneci
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Music is a language.
Youssou N'Dour -
You've got to be able to take the bad events with the good ones. You've got to learn to deal with them and learn to take as much as you can from those. Have fun and put as much as you can into it. As long as you've done your best, that's all you can do.
Hannah Mills -
Cabinet governments educate the nation; the presidential does not educate it, and may corrupt it.
Walter Bagehot -
Voluntary birth control methods only work on the people who choose to use ’em. A population check that doesn’t work on everybody doesn’t work at all, because it simply breeds out the ones who use it. The only population check that really works is one that affects everybody, like a limit of space or food.
Damon Knight -
The rich man... is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.
Henry David Thoreau -
If you look at our country's history, change doesn't come from presidents. Change comes from large groups of angry people.
Aziz Ansari
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I listen to Handel's vocal music, almost exclusively.
Donna Leon -
I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.
Emmanuelle Beart -
The best way not to encounter America's health care system is not to have to encounter it.
Don Lemon -
I just don't want to get in a situation where I'm negotiating my health for money.
Chris Borland -
Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.
Alastair Campbell -
I don't need any support, advice, or compassion, because even if I am the most ruinous man, I still feel so powerful, so strong and fierce. For I am the only one that lives without hope.
Emil Cioran
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I'd like to do more acting.
Garry Shandling -
The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.
Abraham Flexner -
The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Vivit post proelia Magnussed fortuna perit.
Lucan -
It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European accomplishment so far ahead of all other cultures and civilizations around the world.
Charles A. Murray