Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: March 24, 1903 - November 14, 1990

Topics

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Africa's economies are gaining ground and can develop their full potential with the right partner. Siemens wants to support their sustainable development - with solutions and projects in Africa, for Africa.

Joe Kaeser

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When people asked me what I did, I'd say, 'I work in publishing', and when they then say, 'What side of it?', I say, 'Supply' - no doubt leaving them to think I drive the books around in a van and deliver them.

Jim Crace

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Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

Jesse Helms

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I really feel strongly that we don't need to dumb things down for children.

Jessie Mueller

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It was Nick Willing's intention to make 'Hatter' as sarcastically British funny as he could.

Andrew-Lee Potts

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I think the international community should be ashamed that they haven't done more for the Yazidis.

Amal Clooney

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'I Got a Feeling' by the Black Eyed Peas - Reminds me of happy, fun times with my friends and makes me want to jump around.

Summer Sanders

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Robert Collier

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I was about six years old when I did 'Orchids and Ermine.' They dressed me in a suit, put a mustache under my nose, a cigar in my mouth, a cane in my hand, and a hat on my head.

Mickey Rooney

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Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It's inevitable how that happens, but it's generic. Say I've written a story where my sister dies. 'Well, did your sister die?' No, she did not. But people use those straws to grasp at the difference between reality and fiction.

Dinaw Mengestu

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I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Dolly Parton

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I don't like a lot of monitors on stage. I like the real raw sound of the open piano.

Dianne Reeves

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