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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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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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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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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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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This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.
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I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
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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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Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there was a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions-exactly which way to go and what to do to get there; it depended on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone.
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I don't ever feel like anybody knows who I am.
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In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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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.
