Cullen Murphy Quotes
At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.
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When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.
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My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There are a lot of flea markets in that part of France, and she knew what I liked.
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With women and women, I think there's an understanding. Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers, and there are times when we need to be nurtured.
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When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.
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I'd date a fan as long as she didn't scream in my face.
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My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.
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Communism was overthrown by life, by thought, by dignity.
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These terrorists are the enemies of the Iraqi people themselves.
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It was talked about, it was planned and now was the time to go.
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I'm always doing something. I never shut my brain off.
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I do not write, I build.
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Purity is when there is no anxiety, no worry, no thinking.
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That's what fashion is supposed to do to you, it's supposed to make you happy, make you excited, make you feel good.
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When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very storng. But those who imitate him achieve nothing worthwhile.
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, 'Do not weep for me,This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country-I now go back there,I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn.'
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At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.
