Lionel Murphy Quotes
The people of Australia would be staggered to learn that Australia has no national development plan.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
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We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.
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A lot of people don't know that I had a special appearance in 'Keratam'; that was my first Telugu film. I only shot for four to five days. When they called me, I said, 'I can't give 60 days for a movie. If you have something for one week or 10 days, then I can accommodate.'
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
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I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.
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One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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I definitely at times notice a difference in service when I go out. You know, I can walk in to grab a cup of coffee or walk in to have lunch or dinner, and people definitely seem on their best behavior, which is funny, or I start to see people clean up around me, which I always find really, really amusing.
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To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.
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It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.
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I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last for a long time. And I think as the generations go on and everything, you know, my hope is it can be a rite of passage for black fathers and their sons. Like, when are they old enough to watch 'Django Unchained'?
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You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a mass market and an audience that's listening, but they're in love with a song that means absolutely nothing to you.
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I want to be around people that do things. I don't want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people who dream and support and do things.
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People love solving puzzles, and you always love it when somebody smarter than you is solving puzzles.
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Dumbledore had not raised his voice, he did not even sound angry, but Harry would have preferred him to yell; this cold disappointment was worse than anything.
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First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She was criticized for her politics and for her appearance. Mrs. Roosevelt was attacked for being too involved in politics. Bess Truman was criticized for being uninvolved in politics.
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I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.
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The people of Australia would be staggered to learn that Australia has no national development plan.
