Cullen Murphy Quotes
The genius of America may be that it has built "the fall of Rome" into its very makeup: it is very consciously a constant work in progress, designed to accommodate and build on revolutionary change.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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I'd always felt from as far back as I can remember that where the issue of marriage is concerned, individuals should have the opportunity to marry and not be discriminated against.
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When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.
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The Premier League is a very strong league. Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, and Liverpool all have a high quality. But those who know me also know that I always want to win titles. And I think that Manchester United are a club which can win titles.
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When conflicted between two choices, take neither.
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This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing ...
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How short our span! If you once realized how brief, you would refrain from causing any beast or man the smallest grief, the slightest pain.
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When I make a fist, it's strong, and you can't tear it apart. As long as there's unity, there's strength.
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I go back to family: 'Ice Age' was about disparate characters rejected by their own kind. They come together to save the child. 'Despicable Me' is about redefining what a family could be. It has a visual distinction and an experimental quality.
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There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
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Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?
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People only speak to get something.
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...there is very little about self-publishing a comic book that can be taught, but everything about it can be learned. (p. 21)
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
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The seething racial resentment in the Third World against the West — decades after independence and trillions in foreign aid — should cause second thoughts about opening our borders to mass immigration from that world. Not everyone coming here brings in his heart the passionate attachment to America we attribute to the peoples of Ellis Island.
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People are proud of their tattoos. It's like a modern coat of arms.
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The genius of America may be that it has built "the fall of Rome" into its very makeup: it is very consciously a constant work in progress, designed to accommodate and build on revolutionary change.
