Cullen Murphy Quotes
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I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
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Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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I don't actually watch many shows. I will either watch movies or football. I enjoy to watch games in the Premier League and will also watch movies a lot as well. That is how I relax.
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I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at the podium.
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I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without being caught up in the political maelstrom.
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I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
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When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.
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You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
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Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python.
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Siempre me fue más fácil amar que elogiar.
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I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.
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The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more have a mental 'disease' than you can have a purple idea or a wise space". Similarly, there can no more be a "mental illness" than there can be a "moral illness." The words "mental" and "illness" do not go together logically. Mental "illness" does not exist, and neither does mental "health." These terms indicate only approval or disapproval of some aspect of a person's mentality (thinking, emotions, or behavior).
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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I'm really looking for an agenda that looks at safety for our communities beyond policing.
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In a world of moral certainty, the unthinkable becomes permissible.
