Cullen Murphy Quotes
The important question to ask is why these bodies are allowed to exist. If a country such as Spain allowed a repressive body like the Inquisition to exist for four hundred years, it is not because the Inquisition forced itself on the Spanish nation. It is because the Spaniards allowed it to exist.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, then we moved to California, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to Texas, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to California. This was before I was 17.
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My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.
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Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then?
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His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered.I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!
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Don't ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It's too short, and you're too special.
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Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.
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Imagine what I could have done in ten years. I could have learned to speak Japanese. I could have played every RPG video game ever created, and if I spoke Japanese I could have played the foreign ones too! Man, I could have built a spaceship in my backyard and flew it to the moon and back, if I wanted.
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Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?
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Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
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Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.
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One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.
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Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.
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If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.
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The important question to ask is why these bodies are allowed to exist. If a country such as Spain allowed a repressive body like the Inquisition to exist for four hundred years, it is not because the Inquisition forced itself on the Spanish nation. It is because the Spaniards allowed it to exist.
