Albert Murray Quotes
The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.
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I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn't really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn't sleeping. My mum would tell me, 'You need to go outside to get some fresh air.'
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The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
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I wear high heels and dresses. I am a total girly girl.
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'Macbeth' is an amazing story.
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In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational emotional relationship with the child. Somebody's got to be crazy about that kid. That's number one. First, last and always.
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I also couldn't pass up the opportunity to be in the same movie as Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close.
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I'm just used to working harder than everybody and other people taking the credit.
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The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.
