Charles A. Murray (Charles Alan Murray) Quotes

We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.

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• Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Photography
  • Competitive

• Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.

  

  Candace Kita
  • May
  • Political
  • Support

• I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Game
  • Myself
  • Year

• At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Culture
  • Question

• I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Like

• In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Kind
  • Experiences
  • Shock

• If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Great
  • God
  • Family

• Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Lie
  • Liar
  • Too Much

• As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Time
  • Learning
  • Mistake

• Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Experience
  • Words
  • Deep

• We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Different
  • Places
  • Sand

• It's great living with your best friends.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Best

• Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Love
  • Earth
  • For Her

• When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • World
  • Work
  • Believe

• 'The Graduate' must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie you wouldn't ever get from a score.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Movie
  • You
  • Best

• I'm not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I'm seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Way
  • Kid

• I don't like standing and talking in front of lots of people.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Like
  • Standing

• You know, in some ways conducting is counter-intuitive. It's like winter driving in Finland - if you skid, the natural reaction is to fight with the wheel and jam on the brakes, which is the quickest way to get killed. What you have to do is let go, and the car will right itself. It's the same when an orchestra loses its ensemble. You have to resist the temptation to semaphore, and let the orchestra find its own way back to the pulse.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Fighting
  • Car
  • Driving

• Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Law
  • Government
  • Information

• The difference between corporations and governments is governments have a monopoly on force. It's a lot easier to vote with your feet or your wallet than it is to change a government with your vote.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Differences
  • Feet

• The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.

  

  Cesar Pelli
  • Running
  • Desire
  • Humans

• We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.

  

  Charles A. Murray
  • Government
  • Humans