Craig Murray Quotes
One thing is plain in my old age. If you construct a human society in which one individual wields an enormous concentration of power, a high proportion of those who come to be that office bearer will be narcissist psychopaths. Because no-one else is so driven to acquire power.
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.
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I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.
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I'm not a skinny girl. I push it. I'm at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I'm happy at all times.
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People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
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There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.
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You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
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Sarah Johnson (2008-10-17). Cookbook Corner: Healthy meals from health care workers. The Land Online. Retrieved on 2008-12-19.
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Water.
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I agreed the situation was sticky. Indeed, offhand it was difficult to see how it could have been more glutinous.
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Charisms are not distributed at random but are dispensed by God to supply what is needful and lacking in his Church at each historical moment. If they are from God, they usually do not flow with the latest fashionable trend but much more likely contain an antidote and remedy for the perils of the time.
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In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development.
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In fairness to Edwards, asking a trial lawyer to name his favorite moral leader is like asking the president of Iran to name his favorite Jew. (Answer: George Soros.) If you're keeping score, that's two major religions the Democrats lack a working knowledge of - Christianity and Islam.
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I don't think I was a miracle man. Neither were Lou Holtz or Frank Leahy. We all found ways to win.
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Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.
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I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.
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Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.
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We're all as susceptible to the lure of power.
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One thing is plain in my old age. If you construct a human society in which one individual wields an enormous concentration of power, a high proportion of those who come to be that office bearer will be narcissist psychopaths. Because no-one else is so driven to acquire power.
