Charles A. Murray (Charles Alan Murray) Quotes
The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.
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My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.
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The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.
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I only understand realism.
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I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.
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I'm drawn to bad romances.
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(On her work in Keep Your Powder Dry) I didn't want to do it, but they said if I did it they would give me Undercurrent with Robert Taylor. Then they gave Undercurrent to Katharine Hepburn, so I left MGM.
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Die then. This is my cure for sore knees.
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Put the car away; when life fails What's the good of going to Wales? Here am I, here are you: But what does it mean? What are we going to do?
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I keep hearing this expletive thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people.
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I'm a great consumer of kung-fu movies - mid-'70s to late-'80s.
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I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous.
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The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.
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Laughter is really a gift. It's the most vulnerable state you can be in.
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I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day while they were waiting for 'Archie' to read for a boy... I've had drivers come to pick me up in England looking for a blond, blue-eyed Scottish boy.
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I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work, so please give us more historicals.'
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How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.
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A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
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Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else-unless it is an enemy.
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“War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every exaction, relinquish every gain, but „til then he must be struck incessantly and remorselessly.”
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The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.
