Edward R. Murrow Quotes

Anyone who isn't confused doesn't really understand the situation.

Edward R. Murrow

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• The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • May
  • Learn
  • Human

• When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • People
  • World
  • Optimistic

• I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Attention
  • Style
  • Crush

• If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Think
  • You
  • Film

• The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Gay
  • Red
  • Living

• I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids, or around those kids, not at all.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Problems

• Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.

  

  Malcolm Campbell
  • Up
  • Change
  • Will

• Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Reality
  • Best
  • Performance

• I enjoyed being anonymous.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Being
  • Enjoyed
  • Anonymous

• My mom was very much the product of a very paternalistic, deep-southern culture, but also a repressed feminist. Her way of being defiant was to raise us to be rebellious ourselves - basically, the opposite of who she had to be in her own life.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Life
  • She
  • Culture

• Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Capitalism

• Telecom was the golden goose which laid the golden egg. The Supreme Court ensured that the golden goose will never lay golden egg again for a little while.

  

  Kapil Sibal

• Shoes are a big thing for me, just because it's hard to find shoes that fit me correctly.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Shoes

• As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and it was just all uphill from there.

  

  James Durbin Quiet Riot
  • Up

• I would have done higher than that... I would have set it higher.

  

  Duane Chapman
  • Done

• I want film stories to provoke a question in people about what's going on emotionally around them and empower them in some way or ask them about themselves.

  

  Jessie Buckley
  • People
  • Question

• Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

  

  Marc Platt
  • Good

• Forgiveness is the most effective way of dealing with arguments; altruism and forgiveness bring humanity together so that no conflict, however serious, will go beyond the bounds of what is truly human.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Together
  • Humanity
  • Serious

• When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Depression

• The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests.

  

  Colin Quinn
  • People
  • Live
  • Alone

• I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Age
  • Wisdom
  • Confused

• I think a lot of artists get confused when people like their music; they think that means people know and like them. I'm sure there's an element of truth to that, but to me, the music I make is what I'm most proud of. I prefer to focus on that and for people to focus on the music, too.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • People
  • Music
  • Truth

• Anyone who isn't confused doesn't really understand the situation.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Confused