Dale Murphy Quotes

One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.

Dale Murphy

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• The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

  

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• The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

  

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• America is another name for opportunity.

  

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• For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.

  

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• Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.

  

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• Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.

  

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• I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.

  

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• I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.

  

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• (On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

  

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• Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

  

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• In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

  

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• As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

  

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• Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.

  

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• Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.

  

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• Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

  

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• Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.

  

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• As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.

  

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• Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.

  

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• A good memory is needed after one has lied.

  

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• The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in.

  

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• I found this really fantastic used record store in Japan, and I bought all these different records and different 45s, and one of the 45s was just, it had the theme, "Green Leaves of Summer," the theme to "The Alamo" on one side, and then on the flip side was a theme to, the theme to "The Magnificent Seven."

  

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• One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Saying