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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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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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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The pen and the written word hold a great deal of power.
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It was difficult for me to feel my feelings, so I just buried them. Then I found that acting was a way for me to get them out. But now that I'm a reasonably sane adult, acting is more about my trying to engage other people: Acting is cathartic for the viewer as well.
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You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year.
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During fashion week, I dream about fashion; afterwards, I dream about fishing. After fashion week, I always go fishing to wind down.
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We can't renew America unless more of us, I mean all of us, are willing to join churches.
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I hate when people say models don't have personalities; what does that even mean? Everyone has a personality.
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I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.
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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.
