Lionel Murphy Quotes
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I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.
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Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
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Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
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I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
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There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
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I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
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Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.
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I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.
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Nobody can be like Mr. Bachchan.
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An EMP explosion would wipe out our grid, wipe out our cellular system.
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It is difficult to survive as an author in Sweden, so for commercial success, it is good idea to write crime, get yourself translated, and live happily ever after.
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When we stop running up huge budget deficits and start acting responsibly in Washington, we will provide small-business owners with the certainty they need to put Americans back to work.
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I'm interested in full disclosure for people who give money to politicians. But I'm not a politician. I'm an advocate.
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I learned a lot when I was 14 and 15 years old doing chores inside and outside the household, and as a result, I grew up with a good work ethic.
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I am a very thorough person.
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When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
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If a thing seems to you worth working for at all, if it appears to you of moment enough to challenge any effort, then put into what you do all the enthusiasm of which you are capable, regardless of criticism.
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God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
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He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
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On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question.
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There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction... The only solution to this conflict insofar as any is available to us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad.
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Come, eate thy fill of this thy God's white loaf. It's food too fine for Angels, yet come, take and eate thy fill. It's Heaven's Sugar Cake.
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We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period.
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There are no insuperable constitutional difficulties.
