Edward R. Murrow Quotes
If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous,' had a friend who was 'different,' or joined an organization that advocated 'change,' we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
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A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious.
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Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.
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There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
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I love twins stories.
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I'm not a car person. Three years after 'The Da Vinci Code' came out, I still had my old, rusted Volvo. And people are like, 'Why don't you have a Maserati?' It never occurred to me. It wasn't a priority for me. I just didn't care.
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I am all for controlling guns.
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For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
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Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual will never find the real justification for his existence, and his own spiritual and moral autonomy, anywhere except in an extramundane principle capable of relativizing the overpowering influence of external factors.
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I love my son more than anything. I will do whatever it takes to make sure he is raised the right way.
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I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance.
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A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.
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If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous,' had a friend who was 'different,' or joined an organization that advocated 'change,' we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.
