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

• 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.

  

  Aaron Peirsol
  • People
  • Hope
  • Day

• 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

• Prosperity makes few friends.

  

  Luc de Clapiers
  • Friends

• Every generation has to protect every one of their rights, whether that's freedom of the press, freedom of speech, or freedom of faith. You have to remain diligent.

  

  James Lankford
  • Freedom
  • Faith

• Education has always been very important to me.

  

  Freddie Stroma
  • Important
  • Education

• 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?

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Life

• Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things, not about facts but about the interpretation of facts, not about one particular feeling but about a confluence of conflicting feelings. Everything is elusive in Proust because nothing is ever certain.

  

  Andre Aciman
  • Life
  • Feeling

• 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

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

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Confused