Lionel Murphy Quotes
We must have as clear a picture as we can of the Australia that we want to achieve at the end of that time.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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I'm a proud family man.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.
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I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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White America is in the minority.
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In addition to myself and a number of others, President Clinton talked about the deficit and the debt issue. And he pointed out, really, what I pointed out, which is that when he left office, we actually had projected surpluses for a long period of time, because when he put together his economic plan, he did it in a balanced way.
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I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.
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We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.
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There was a time when papal encyclicals were treated as virtual pronouncements of papal infallibility. There are still a small minority of Catholics who cite Pope Paul VI's 1968 document Humanae Vitae - which outlawed artificial birth control - as the word of God.
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We must have as clear a picture as we can of the Australia that we want to achieve at the end of that time.
