Edward R. Murrow Quotes
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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.
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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 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.
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Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
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I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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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.
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Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.
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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.
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I enjoyed being anonymous.
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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.
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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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.
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Shoes are a big thing for me, just because it's hard to find shoes that fit me correctly.
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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.
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I would have done higher than that... I would have set it higher.
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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.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?
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Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.
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Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.
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Every time a new technology comes along, we feel we're about to break through to a place where we will not be able to recover. The advent of broadcast radio confused people. It delighted people, of course, but it also changed the world.
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Anyone who isn't confused doesn't really understand the situation.
