Charles A. Murray (Charles Alan Murray) Quotes
The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.
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I was a journalist. I was a drummer. I was everything. I didn't know what the heck I was. But with Jack Paar, the job was very specific - no confusion. You came in each day. You wrote five pages of jokes. You handed the pages in... The pressure was to write five pages of jokes every day. I did it, and I thought, 'This is what I like to do.'
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People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.
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I work out six days a week. Usually 45 minutes of running, then swimming and weightlifting.
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The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.
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Writing is such a good thing to do because you can't really get bored with it. If you're bored with writing, you're bored with life.
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There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.
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Without a dog, you'd never have anyone demonstrate how important it is to stop every day and smell the roses... and then lift your leg on them.
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I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.
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When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.
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Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
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I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.
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All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
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Every year, Planned Parenthood serves three million Americans - men and women - and one in five women will receive care at a Planned Parenthood clinic in her lifetime.
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Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.
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No, you can't deny women their basic rights and pretend it's about your 'religious freedom'. If you don't like birth control, don't use it. Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.
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My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. And when I die, they're $4 million in the hole.
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A sense of humor isn't everything. It's only 90 percent of everything.
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The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.
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Everything I can't see / is at least as real as what I can.
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Over 80% of the poor are people who have small plots of land and grow their own food and they don't grow enough to sell much into the marketplace. So they will be hit hard by the worst in climate. They really get hit hard starting in the 20-year time frame and thereafter.
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The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.
